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Karin Bijsterveld is Professor of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She is author of Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century (MIT, 2008), co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (2012, with Trevor Pinch), co-author of Sound and Safe: A History of Listening Behind the Wheel (Oxford UP 2014, with Eefje Cleophas, Stefan Krebs & Gijs Mom), and editor of a special issue on Auditory History in The Public Historian (2015). Her book Sonic Skills is forthcoming (Palgrave, 2018).