Meaning of audiocentric | Babel Free

Definitions

Centred or focusing on sound and hearing (often to the detriment of deaf individuals).

Examples

“Audism inhibits cultural democracy and without cultural democracy there can be no political democracy. Educators must recognize the audiocentric assumptions and attitudes, the social problem, and the social injustices that the term audism describes. Transformative and civic engagement begins with bridging Deaf Cultural Studies with the social sciences. Meaningful social actions must follow.”

“Also, Jay shows that a straightforward transformation from audiocentric medieval European culture to ocularcentric modernity is a massive simplification.”

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