Un bon voyage sonore:

Avoiding listener discomfort in immersive audio documentary

Wincott, Abigail ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3162-644X (2023) Un bon voyage sonore:. Journal of Radio and Audio Media, online. ISSN 1937-6529

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Abstract / Summary

This article interrogates claims made in the emerging discourse of immersive audio documentary that spatial sound is more real, allowing the listener to step into another space, and understand the world better. However my analysis shows makers are failing to make good on these claims. Use of the technical affordances of spatial audio is limited and producers enrol concepts of the real and of transportation in a colonial discourse of exploration and adventure, reproducing a disengaged mode of listening, while avoiding discomfort at all costs.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	radio, audio, podcast, documentary, feature, journalism, listener, audience, media
ISSN:	1937-6529
eISSN:	1937-6537
Subjects:	Communication Computing & Data Science Communication > Journalism
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Depositing User:	Abigail Wincott
Date Deposited:	05 Jul 2023 10:29
Last Modified:	18 Nov 2024 15:05
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/4962

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