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Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College's Thematic Series: Sonic Impressions. Michael Bull is Reader in Media and Film Studies (Media and Film, Centre for Material Digital Culture) at the University of Sussex. He has worked extensively on the nature of auditory experience and recently published Sound Moves (2007) about iPod cultures, and specialises in the work of The Frankfurt School. Bull teaches undergraduate courses in Music and Media, Media, Technology and Everyday Life, Media and Power, MA courses in The Political Economy of the New Media and the core course in Media and Cultural Studies. Bull is on the advisory board of Portalplayer in California; a consultant at Sound Strategies in London; a core member of Future Trends Forum, which is a European think-tank funded by Bankinter in Spain; and a member of Wired Sussex. His research focuses on mobile comminication technologies and their use, music and sound in urban culture; and new directions in Critical Theory (The Frankfurt School), sensory experience and methodologies. He is also the founding and managing editor of the journal Senses and Society published by Berg.