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Recontextualizing Listening as Self-Technology in Platform-Mediated Sonic Environments-

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2025, (48), pp.175~199
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2025..48.007
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : June 2, 2025
  • Accepted : June 21, 2025
  • Published : June 30, 2025

Kyoung Hwa Kim 1

1한양대학교

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ABSTRACT

With the development of digital networks and user-participatory online environments, it has become easier for individuals to produce and share data. The rise of social media has further accelerated online networking, enabling user-generated content to be widely created, distributed, and consumed. This changing media landscape has transformed not only how music and sound are produced but also how they are listened to. This study analyzes listening practices as a “technology of the self” in everyday life shaped by digital platforms, drawing on Foucault’s notion of self-formation through practices of regulation and reflection. It examines how individuals construct their sonic environments, focusing on the popularity of sound-based content on YouTube, mobile apps, and social media. It explores how the user-listener listens and what is constituted through that act. It asks what the listener is really hearing, whether they are truly listening, and whether this mode of listening is genuinely new—thereby theorizing listening as a sensory practice and a strategic mode of self-regulation. In doing so, it relocates sound and listening within broader social and ontological frameworks, beyond aesthetic appreciation.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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