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2020 was the first year when streaming services overtook "family and friends" as the primary channel for music discovery, with over 62% of music listeners in the US naming DSPs among their top discovery sources.
Music Tomorrow • Towards Recommender System Optimization: Our Data Tool for Algorithmic Optimization on Spotify [Part 1]
Instead of being fed from above a limited diet of standardized cultural products, everyone — not just a minority of highly educated omnivores — can now craft a varied and customized cultural diet from the digital cornucopia. People create these customized diets by sharing the work of “curation” in differentiated niche taste communities. This
... See moreRogers Brubaker • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
Truly democratizing cultural creativity, one might argue, would promote the development of skills and capacities rather than minimize the need for them.
Rogers Brubaker • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
Character is gone, because eccentricity is harder to duplicate and sell in bulk.
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