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"How the World Listens explores our everyday and professional interactions with sound. The book aims to uncover the human relationship with sound across the world and to reveal practical ways in which a better understanding of listening can help us in our daily lives. This book asks how sound is perceived, expressed and interacted with in both remarkably similar and dramatically different ways across the world. Using findings from a new scientific study, conducted exclusively for this book, we embark on a globe-trotting adventure across more than thirty countries, through exclusive interviews with more than fifty individuals from all walks of life; from acousticians and film composers, to human resource managers and costumiers. How the World Listens is essential reading for anyone with an interest in human relationships with sound, including but not limited to sound design and music composition professionals, teachers and researchers"--

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Virtual Reality Sound as an Emergent Phenomenon -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- A Few Brief Notes Before We Begin -- 2 The Domain of Virtual Reality -- Global Context -- Then and Now -- Advanced Production -- Application -- Corporatisation -- Integration -- Acceptance -- How the Virtual Has Become the Everyday -- The Telephone -- The Television -- Network Technology & Social Media -- Mobile Technology -- Holding the Door Open for VR -- What Is Virtual? Positioning the Virtual, the Actual and the Real -- The Virtual as Technology -- The Virtual as Organisational Theory (Virtuality) -- Chapter Summary and References -- References -- 3 Sound and the Virtual -- Perspectives on Sound: What (and Where) Is It? -- The Acoustic Definition -- Sound as an Object -- Sound as an Event -- Sound as Object and Event -- Proximal, Medial and Distal Theory -- Aspatial Sound -- Sound as a Phenomenon -- Building More Holistic Perspectives on Sound -- Perceptual Grouping -- Soundscapes and Acoustic Ecology -- Psychoacoustic Effects -- Virtual Acoustic Ecology -- The Sound Without a Sound Wave Problem -- Building a Model of Sound as an Emergent Perception -- The Cave -- Embodied Cognition and Construal Level Theory -- Modes of Listening -- Emergence -- Sonic Virtuality -- Sonic Virtuality and Its Application for VR Sound -- Chapter Summary and References -- References -- 4 User-Experience -- User-Experience in a VR Context -- A Note on Physiological Aspects -- Presence and Immersion -- Further Psychological Aspects -- Flow -- Diegesis -- Fun -- To Summarise -- Reframing the Self and Identity in the VR Age -- What Is the Self? -- Sound and the Self -- The Virtual Self -- Connecting Identity to User-Experience