ABSTRACT
A diachronic approach Within the last three chapters, I have explored music listening experiences on mobile music listening devices synchronically – that is, I have explored what the music listening experience is like for the participants at any given moment. In Chapter 4, I explored music listening on these devices as an embodied phenomenon, describing the sensations that participants experience while listening to their devices. In Chapter 5, I explored the relationships between how the participants organize their music, their agency in doing so, and the pairing of music listening on their devices with other activities. This discussion brought to light the various ways in which the participants could be consciously engaged with the music at any given moment while listening to their devices. In Chapter 6, I explored the ways in which the participants navigate different kinds of real and virtual spaces at any given moment. The synchronic approach that I used within these chapters provides us with a great detail of insight into what the participants experience at certain points in time, but it does not provide insight into how those experiences developed over time or how the participants may have developed over time in relationship to these experiences. Answering these types of questions demands that we look at mobile music listening experiences diachronically.
