Microphone by Jones, Ralph;

Series: Object Lessons;

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Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Date of Publication 30 April 2026
Number of Volumes Paperback

ISBN 9798765126011
Binding Paperback
No. of pages152 pages
Size 164x120x14 mm
Weight 140 g
Language English
Illustrations 7 bw illus

Categories

Natural sciences in general, history of science, philosophy of science Aesthetics Media and information industry Literary theory Semantics, lexicography Further reading in the field of sociology Media and communication science in general Natural sciences in general, history of science, philosophy of science (charity campaign) Aesthetics (charity campaign) Media and information industry (charity campaign) Literary theory (charity campaign) Semantics, lexicography (charity campaign) Further reading in the field of sociology (charity campaign) Media and communication science in general (charity campaign)

Short description:

Discusses how the microphone is far more ubiquitous and omnipresent in everyday life than we would expect.

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Long description:

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Since its invention more than 150 years ago, the microphone transformed the world in an instant. Yet its evolution and integration into our daily lives has been comparatively gradual - so gradual, crucially, that it is easy to forget just how much we take it for granted. Every phone has a microphone. Every laptop has a microphone. We are surrounded by microphones.

The microphone wields enormous power. But when we're 'on mic' we aren't just powerful, we're vulnerable. Microphones can destroy careers as quickly as make them. The microphone is inextricable from our need to be heard. This book takes a curious, always humorous look at this object as a metaphor for power and how the fulfillment of our desire to be heard has created a multi-headed beast we are still learning how to tame.