Viktoria Tkaczyk is Professor of Media and Knowledge Technologies at Humboldt University in Berlin.
Mara Mills is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University who works at the intersection of disability studies and media studies.
Alexandra Hui is Associate Professor of History at Mississippi State University and Co-Editor of the journal Isis.

• Testing Hearing: An Introduction


• Alexandra Hui, Mara Mills, and Viktoria Tkaczyk


• Sorting and Screening Human Hearers:


• Testing the Culturally Molded Ear


• Testing Hearing with Speech


• Mara Mills


• The Testing of a Hundred Listeners: Otto Abraham's Studies on "Absolute Tone Consciousness"


• Viktoria Tkaczyk


• Murray Island versus Aberdeenshire: Contextualizing the Cross-Cultural Hearing Tests of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, 1898-1899


• Sebastian Klotz


• Designing Instruments, Calibrating machines




• Hearing Perfection


• Emily I. Dolan


• Opelt's Siren and the Technologies of Musical Hearing


• Alexander Rehding


• The Software Passes the Test When the User Fails It: Constructing Digital Models of Analog Signal Processors


• Jonathan Sterne


• Managing Sound, Assessing Space




• To Hear As I Do: The Concessions of Hearing in Taiwan's Noise Management System


• Jennifer Hsieh


• Testing Spatial Hearing and the Development of Kunstkopf Technology, 1957-1981


• Stefan Krebs


• Absorption, Transmission, Reflection: Testing Materials in the Laboratory


• Roland Wittje


• World as Testbed:


• Testing beyond Human Auditory Perception


• Of Silent Sirens and Pied Pipers: Auditory Thresholds and High-Frequency Technologies of Animal Control


• Joeri Bruyninckx


• Testing the Underwater Ear: Hearing, Standardizing, and Classifying Marine Sounds from World War I to the Cold War


• Lino Camprubí and Alexandra Hui


• This Is Not a Test: Listening with Günther Anders in the Nuclear Age


• Benjamin Steege


• Afterword


• Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Trevor Pinch

Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality argues that the modern cultural practices of hearing and testing have emerged from a long interrelationship.