Sonification of web tracking, Jasmine Guffond: listening back

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Notes

1. Chrome Webstore (Listening Back is an add-on for the Chrome or Firefox Browsers; accessed 4 January 2021) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/listening-back/gdkmphlncmoloepkpifnhneogcliiiah

2. You may recognise the platforms through their sounding, it is, however, difficult to decipher what a cookie actually does.

3. RFC6265, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1, accessed 4 January 2021.

4. Find a demo of this tool on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug3GfEe801k, accessed January, 4, 2021.

5. As Guffond (2019a) explained, Max Breedon suggested to use this JavaScript Library for Objective Sound Programming. Further information about the Timbre.js Library: http://mohayonao.github.io/timbre.js/, accessed 8 January 2021.

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Beate Ochsner

Beate Ochsner is a Professor of Media Studies at the University of Konstanz(Germany). She is the Spokeswoman of the DFG research group „Media and Participation“ (mediaandparticipation.com) and PI in the subproject „Technosensory Processes of Participation and Dis/Ability”. Her research focuses on media and participation, on the interface of media and disability studies, on (digital) practices of hearing as well as on Serious games/Serious Gaming. Recent publications: Affective and participatory processes between organisms and machines (co-edited with S. Nikolow and R. Stock). Bielefeld 2020; together with M. Spöhrer and R. Stock: Rethinking Assistive Technologies: Users, Environments, Digital Media, and App-Practices of Hearing. Nanoethics 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-020-00381-5.