Article ID: CBB201533128

Data Echoes: Sound, Evidence, and Acoustic Methods in Energy Landscapes (2023)

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This paper explores an informal acoustic method developed by a group of industrial geologists working in geothermal energy landscapes in the southwest of Iceland. Through a series of ethnographic descriptions, this paper renders the work these geologists carry out in sonic terms, emphasizing how they use their bodies as sonic detectors in the production of geological evidence. Sound, the paper argues, is what allows geologists to make the intractable problem of volcanic cooling doable. It does this by differentiating two forms of evidence. Primary evidence, which ends up as data in geological reports, and secondary sonic evidence, which is what establishes that this primary evidence is, in fact, evidence. The paper introduces the concept data echoes as a way to think about how sound articulates between these evidential protocols. As echo, sound works as an outside, which, while remaining external to official protocols of knowledge production, nevertheless helps to constitute distinctions that are meaningful to the production of those categories. As data echoes through the various moments of data capture, analysis, and model building, sound’s temporal form helps to predict the time frame of volcanic cooling, as it affects both the immediate energy production scenarios and the long durée of volcanic time.

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Authors & Contributors
Cataldi, Raffaele
Baker, Jonathan D.
Brossmann, Brent
Ciardi, Marco
Knaapen, Loes
Sovacool, Benjamin K.
Journals
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Social Studies of Science
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
The Bridge: Journal of the National Academy of Engineering
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Publishers
Edizioni ETS
Laterza
Concepts
Science and technology studies (STS)
Energy resources and technologies
Geothermal resources
Sound
Renewable Energy Sources
Technology and environment, relationship
People
Dewey, John
Ginori Conti, Piero
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Ancient
16th century
17th century
18th century
Places
Italy
Great Britain
Iceland
Korea
Mexico
Denmark
Institutions
Copenhagen. Universitet
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