{"id":888,"date":"2017-03-06T01:09:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T01:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/?p=888"},"modified":"2017-03-06T01:09:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T01:09:39","slug":"from-phonography-to-black-boxes-in-jonathan-sternes-the-audible-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/2017\/03\/06\/from-phonography-to-black-boxes-in-jonathan-sternes-the-audible-past\/","title":{"rendered":"From Phonography to Black Boxes in Jonathan Sterne’s “The Audible Past”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a quick mention on\u00a0embalming: check out Jessica Mitford’s short story, Embalming Mr. Jones<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0I read it for an english class\u00a0and still remember each\u00a0excruciating detail…<\/p>\n

It’s amazing the amount of detail we go to in order to make the dead look\u00a0“decent,” even if that means that nothing inside (or out) is real.<\/p>\n

Moving along!<\/p>\n

The Mysterious Black Box<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sterne’s article focuses on the importance of phonography and how it influences everyday life. One example of this in modern times is the black box used in airplanes. The purpose of the black box is to record the conversation in the pit of an airplane, and they often\u00a0used by authorities to get to\u00a0the details of a situation whenever\u00a0a disaster occurs (when a plane crashes, is hijacked, etc).<\/p>\n

As you probably already noticed, the black box is not actually black, it’s orange. In fact, it’s not even a box! There are some theories as to why it got it’s name as the “black box,” but none have ever been proved. Some of these theories include:<\/p>\n

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  1. the original design was a black box<\/li>\n
  2. a journalist coined the term and made it become known as a ‘black box” in the media<\/li>\n
  3. the only semblance of the piece\u00a0remaining after a crash is a charred, black box with the recordings inside.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Additionally, it’s not even a box! It’s actually comprised of two separate parts. Check out this post<\/a><\/strong> for more information.<\/p>\n

    Malcolm Gladwell’s\u00a0Outliers: the Story of Success<\/em> provides transcripts of actual conversations that took place in the cockpit moments before a disaster. The seventh chapter of Gladwell’s work, “The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes,” uses these transcripts to reveal the larger cultural factors at play.<\/p>\n

    For example, the crew on\u00a0Korean Air flight 801 were so restricted to the Korean culture of being respectful to a superior (in this case, the captain) that it cost them their lives. This blog<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>effectively summarises the chapter and provides some decent counterpoints to Gladwell’s theory.<\/p>\n

    These conversations are useful, because they help airplanes companies\u00a0figure out how to train their crews effectively\u00a0to prevent a given disaster.<\/p>\n

    Click here<\/a> <\/strong>for a link to a site titled, “Last Words,” which has the recordings of black boxes from \u00a0infamous plane crashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Just a quick mention on\u00a0embalming: check out Jessica Mitford’s short story, Embalming Mr. Jones.\u00a0\u00a0I read it for an english class\u00a0and still remember each\u00a0excruciating detail… It’s amazing the amount of detail we go to in order to make the dead look\u00a0“decent,” even if that means that nothing inside (or out) is real. Moving along! Sterne’s article … <\/p>\n

    Continue reading “From Phonography to Black Boxes in Jonathan Sterne’s “The Audible Past””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}