mack hagood

Ethnographic research
in media, sound, 
performance, 
and popular music.

PhD Candidate
Department of 
Communication 
and Culture
Indiana University
800 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
U.S.A. 
whagoodi@indiana.edu

Current research projects include audio-spatial media, the experience and treatment of tinnitus, Foley in Hollywood film, and online "digital drugs." I also study online discourse and promotion in commercial music. My dissertation is titled Sonic Technologies of the Self: Mediating Sound, Space, Self, and Sociality (defending May 2013).

My article "Quiet Comfort: Noise, Otherness, and the Mobile Production of Personal Space" appeared in American Quarterly in 2011. In the summer of 2008, I completed my MA thesis, Trails of the Dark Horse: Culture, Metaculture and Pathways of Indie Music, based on research I did at the Secretly Canadian record label. My article   “Liminal States: Life as an Indie Musician on Taiwan” was published in Folklore Forum in 2008.

news

  • I-69 Radio Doc Now Online This is part one of the three-part documentary radio series created for WFHB by students in my I-69 class at Indiana University's Department of Communication and Culture ...
    Posted Jan 19, 2013, 8:48 AM by Mack Hagood
  • Interview on Penn Annenberg's 3620 Podcast I was recently interviewed about my tinnitus research for 3620, a podcast produced by the doctoral students of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Producer Kevin ...
    Posted Nov 26, 2012, 6:31 PM by Mack Hagood
  • Listening to Tinnitus I recently wrote a short article for the sound studies blog Sounding Out, called "Listening to Tinnitus: Roles of Media When Hearing Breaks Down." It's a "wide net" piece ...
    Posted Aug 3, 2012, 8:22 AM by Mack Hagood
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current teaching

  • Like school on a Sunday... That's right, I've got no class. As I diligently pound out the pages of my dissertation, I am not teaching this semester--rather I am acting as Research ...
    Posted Jun 18, 2012, 10:14 AM by Mack Hagood
  • C121 Public Speaking This fall I am excited to be teaching public speaking for the first time at IU. I'll be sharing acting tips and techniques I learned while getting my B ...
    Posted Aug 22, 2011, 9:01 AM by Mack Hagood
  • C385 Audio Production as Service: Sounds and Stories in the Path of I-69 2011 Summer Session I: M, T, R 3:00-5:00 p.m. In this service learning class, we will use audio production to document and evaluate coming changes to ...
    Posted Apr 29, 2011, 1:47 PM by Mack Hagood
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