Professor Samantha Bennett is currently working on a large-scale research project with co-investigator, Associate Professor Eliot Bates (CUNY). Entitled Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies, the project investigates the materialities, design, manufacturing, consumption, and heritigization of professional audio technologies. Through critical ethnographic, gender, Queer, and STS lenses, Bennett and Bates illuminate how fetishization underpins the (hyper)masculine social milieux in which gear cultures thrive. Bates and Bennett have published preliminary findings in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, and presented their work in numerous international fora, including a keynote at the Borderline Sonorities Conference, Santa Caterina, Brazil (2021), the 148^th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, ‘Virtual Vienna’ (2020), and the recent IASPM UK/Ireland Branch Conference (2022). Their co-authored book of the same name is under contract with The MIT Press (forthcoming 2023) and Samantha has a sole authored, short-form monograph stemming from the same research under contract with Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2023).  

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