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The Psychology Behind Headphones

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thinking-about-it-way-to-hard dept.

pvt_medic writes "The BBC has an interesting article today about portable music players and personal space. The article is on the research that Dr Michael Bull has done on portable music players. He analyzes them as a "tool whereby users manage space, time and the boundaries around the self." This article goes on to analyze the social and psychological aspects related to listening to music in public with headphones. A good quick read for those who do this."

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  1. Re:anti-social behaviors... by WorkEmail · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Good point. I think a nice car system sound good, on the inside of the car. But when it gets beyond that I just don't see the point. Why spend so much money on a speaker system for such a little area? In a car system you should just aim for quality sound, instead of how loud it will go and how much bass you can thump.

    There is nothing more annoying than an old nasty car that has thousands of dollars in speaker equipment in it. Or nice rims. If you have the money for those, work on getting a new car first!

  2. Re:anti-social behaviors... by cpex · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    my big distration in class is my laptop with 802.11 :)

    not just me either, at any time if you sit on the back about o third of the class will have laptops out doing spmething obviously not class related

  3. headphone info by Jafa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here's a thread on a big discussion on headphones:
    Headphone discussion

    J