There is a kind of growing new media practice of capturing and mapping sound and an emergent global community of listeners interested in engaging with sounds of the environment, urban space, habitats and biospheres. Between user-driven Instagramming our everyday audio-visual experiences and professionally curated sound installations, there is an emergent space and a global audience for listening to ‘soundmaps’ of local and global environments. Sometimes interlinked and sometimes disparate, these communities connect to wider communities of practice and (environmental) activism in the context of social media, new media production and participatory cultures. There are also growing research initiatives that take up soundmapping as a way of inquiring into pressing spatial, geo-political and cultural issues primarily in cities and also in the endangered wilds. Interest in sound in a variety of interdisciplinary fields has grown exponentially over the last few decades. This article will externalize and analyse the frames of several emergent communities and their organizing themes as nascent in new media culture, and social networks specifically, as they intersect with phonography, creative soundmaking and ‘citizen science. By pointing out normative logics embedded in the practice of soundmapping, I then work towards a language of critical soundmapping by way of three examples that I suggest function as alternative forms of representation of and communication about sound environments: (1) the curated initiative Cities and Memory, (2) the creative research project London Sound Survey and (3) the climate change project Biosphere Soundscapes.

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声音映射是关键的制图：吸引公众倾听环境

捕捉和绘制声音的媒体正在不断发展，新兴的全球听众社区对与环境，城市空间，栖息地和生物圈的声音互动感兴趣。在用户驱动的Instagram播放我们的日常视听体验与专业策划的声音装置之间，有一个新兴的空间和一个全球听众可以收听本地和全球环境的“声图”。在社会媒体，新媒体生产和参与性文化的背景下，这些社区有时相互联系，有时又是分散的，它们与更广泛的实践和（环境）行动主义社区相连。还有越来越多的研究计划将声音映射作为一种探究紧迫的空间，地缘政治和文化问题，主要存在于城市以及濒临灭绝的荒野中。在过去的几十年中，人们对声音在各种跨学科领域的兴趣呈指数增长。本文将外部化和分析几个新兴社区的框架，以及它们在新媒体文化（尤其是社交网络）中的组织主题，这些主题与留声机，创造性的发声技术和“公民科学”相交。通过指出声音映射实践中嵌入的规范逻辑，然后我通过三个示例向关键的声音映射语言努力，我建议这三个示例充当声音环境的表示形式和与声音环境的交流的替代形式：（1）精心策划的倡议性城市和记忆，