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- Title
Sonar: Empire, Media, and the Politics of Underwater Sound.
- Authors
Shiga, John
- Abstract
This article traces the development of acoustic navigation media, or "sonar," in the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on the relationships forged between underwater sound, electric media, and new techniques of listening. The central argument is that sonar shaped, and was shaped by, the expansion of warfare and capital underwater, and that this expansion came to be conceptualized by nautical organizations as dependent upon the control of underwater sound. Through analysis of key episodes in the conquest ofsubsea space, the author explores scientific, military, and commercial efforts to sense underwater objects and demonstrates how these efforts helped reconceptualize oceanic water as a component of undersea acoustic media and led to the material reorganization of the ocean's acoustic field.
- Subjects
ACOUSTIC navigational equipment; SONAR; UNDERWATER acoustics; DIGITAL media; OCEAN tomography; TRANSMISSION of sound
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Communication, 2013, Vol 38, Issue 3, p357
- ISSN
0705-3657
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22230/cjc.2013v38n3a2664