The interests of this reading group will primarily be determined by those of its members rather than any single area of focus or academic “program” of research. Admins are really only there to wrangle things on the infrastructure end and not to determine the direction of the group.

There will be a reading group as well as contributed blog posts from the group members, co-ordinated through the blog. If you want to help us shape the direction of the group, please leave a comment introducing yourself and your interests at the Getting Started post. To do this you’ll need to be a member of the scholarly social network over at Humanities Commons.

We also hope to have as much of our writing and commentary made publicly available on this blog, as soon as feasible, the purpose being to feature blog-length, timely and exciting scholarship about sound and technology, ever-broadly construed.

If, for any reason, you would like us to retract or redact any of your contributions please let us know as quickly as possible and we’ll do our best to accommodate your wishes.

Adding your content to the group blog

This blog supports syndicated content, which is a fancy way of saying you can make your own personal blog posts show up here. This model worked really well for the group of scholars over at Grand Text Auto (https://grandtextauto.soe.ucsc.edu/) and it might work here.

This WordPress blog includes a plugin called FeedForward to achieve this. If you often blog about something that might be interesting to the group, choose a tag and use it for those posts (e.g. “taxis”). Then your blogging engine of choice should automatically generate an Atom feed (XML file) or an RSS feed that lists all the posts so tagged. If you can send any of the group admins a link to the feed for your chosen tag, we’ll endeavour to set it up so that all new posts you tag with that specially chosen tag will appear here.

An alternative is to use the FeedForward “Nominate This” bookmarklet (should be accessible to all) to nominate individual pieces of writing for inclusion in the blog. This nomination will be flagged to the admins who will then move the post forward to draft and on to post, where appropriate.