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between the real world space and the virtual
soundscape.
Social construction of space: Social con-
structivists examine ways in which individuals
and groups participate in the creation of their
perceived social reality. In this context, I am fo-
cusing on how society can change their perceived
space through sound, either by how they listen to
or produce sound in a space.
Sonic Architecture: The study of the acoustic
affect of objects such as building's, interior and
exterior, on space. Equally, sonic architecture ex-
plores how people can construct sonic structures
or challenge the sounds of places by creating their
own sonic space.
Soundscape: Refers to both natural and man-
made sounds that immerse an environment.
Soundwalking: A soundwalk is a journey
where the objective is to discover an environment
by listening to it.
Symbolic Interactionist: The study of micro-
scale social interaction. It is seen as a process that
informs and forms human conduct, the premise
being that humans beings act on and upon things
based on the meaning these things have, things
being defined as physical objects such as chairs,
trees, phones, and human beings, mothers, shop
clerks and so forth.
KEY tErMs AND DEFINItIONs
Holistic: In order to understand the whole of
a system, one must look at the parts within it that
make it up. Within sociology, Durkheim devel-
oped a concept of holism which is in opposition
to methodological individualism.
Immersion: To be completely surrounded
by sound.
Mediatization: Sonia Livingstone's defini-
tion of Mediatization is for me the most accurate
because it refers “to the meta process by which
every day practices and social relations are in-
creasingly shaped by mediating technologies and
media organisations” (http://www.icahdq.org/
conferences/presaddress.asp par. 3).
Schizophonic: Murray Schafer describes the
term schizophonic as the split between an origi-
nal sound and an electroacoustic reproduction in
a soundscape. I am using it as a metaphor for a
split between two types of listening spaces: If one
is listening to music while traversing through a
real space the attention is split in comprehension
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