How Portable Music Lets Us Reclaim Our Private Space

from the your-own-soundtrack-to-all-that-advertising dept

The walkman has been around for decades now, and finally, someone has gotten around to studying the social impact of personal music players. He suggests that, with so many visual messages being targeted at us every day as we walk around, personal music players allow people to reclaim their personal space by putting their own soundtrack on it, and letting it match their own preferences and mood, while also blocking out certain elements of the outside.

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