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This blog collects the participating students' essays from the 2006 fall semester's Studies in Audio Culture seminar at ECIAD. The seminar set out to address the very questions suggested by its title: examining not only what constitutes Audio Culture itself, but also how it is to be studied. These broad, framing questions quickly unfolded into a complex, interrelated field of study, ranging from the materiality of sound and the ambiguities of listening and hearing to the political economy of popular music in the age of the iPod. Presented over the semester with an eclectic collection of readings, listening sessions and film viewings, as well as student presentations and much group discussion, it is not surprising that the students' work for the class was diverse both in terms of form and content. Their essays are presented here without editorial intervention, retaining the individual voices of the students, idiosyncrasies and all; they are also not presented in any particular order. Please enjoy.