Call Me Maybe: Telephonic Romances and the Female Voice 1880–1920

Schöberlein, Stefan

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“…Moran, 2014, p. 462). Similarly, Stefan Schöberlein’s (2018) historical account of telephonic romances and woman’s voice demonstrates how early technologies of audio communication constructed a certain “romantic imagination.” By 1900, Schöberlein (2018) asserts, “a woman’s voice became one of her defining features in the technophile culture of the U.S,” as the voice stood to represent the “totality” of her character as well as her looks. Indeed, Schöberlein helps demonstrate how the obsession with voice culture in the early 20th century, inspired by technological innovation, is ultimately an obsession with algorithms that might solve women’s voices.…”

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“…Moran, 2014, p. 462). Similarly, Stefan Schöberlein's (2018) historical account of telephonic romances and woman's voice demonstrates how early technologies of audio communication constructed a certain "romantic imagination." By 1900, Schöberlein (2018 asserts, "a woman's voice became one of her defining features in the technophile culture of the U.S," as the voice stood to represent the "totality" of her character as well as her looks.…”

Section: Socio-historical Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Solving women’s voices? A theoretical framework for talking through the algorithm

2023

Communication and the Public

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This article offers a four-dimensional framework for analyzing technologies of gendered voice, especially those which have sought to correct or “solve” the supposedly unruly, unpleasant, or otherwise problematic voices of women. While modern technologies such as artificially intelligent assistants Siri and Alexa implement digital algorithms for cultivating feminine voices, this framework insists upon a broad conceptualization of algorithms to consider how predigital technologies and institutions of vocal cultivation also anticipate and echo such contemporary means of vocal norm-production and control. By imagining gendered voice through this broad lens of the algorithm, we can begin to deconstruct the ways in which technologies and institutions of voice have historically operated as algorithms that attempt to “solve” women’s voices by making them amenable to hegemonic, patriarchal values, uses, and ideals. The research builds upon existing communication literature surrounding the nature and functionality of algorithms as well as feminist posthumanist theory, which provides a richer conceptualization of how algorithms of voice enact both a political and material discipline upon women’s voices.

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Section: A Multidimensional Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Socio-historical Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 99%