One effect of this switch is what has been called the "headphone gaze," a staring into oblivion. But for Chambers, the visual void of Walkman reception "can also be understood as a pregnant zero, as … the unobtrusive link in an urban strategy, a semiotic shifter, the crucial digit in a particular organization of sense" (ibid). The Walkman is "a significant symbolic gadget for the nomads of modernity, in which music on the move is continually being decontextualized and recontextualized in the inclusive acoustic and symbolic life of everyday life" (ibid).