audiocentric

English

Etymology

From audio +‎ -centric.

Adjective

audiocentric (comparative more audiocentric, superlative most audiocentric)

1. Centred or focusing on sound and hearing (often to the detriment of deaf individuals).
   • 2013 May, Richard Clark Eckert, Amy June Rowley, “Audism: A Theory and Practice of Audiocentric Privilege”, in Humanity & Society, volume 37, number 2, Thousand Oaks, C.A.: SAGE Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 124:

     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.

   • 2014, Anastasia Valassopoulos, editor, Arab Cultural Studies: History, Politics and the Popular, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 60:

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

Related terms

• audiocentrism