
Spotification of Popular Culture in the Field of Popular Communication
This edited collection considers various meanings of the Spotification of music and other media. Specifically, it replies to the editors call to address the changes in media cultures and industries accompanying the transition to streaming media and media services. Streaming media services have become part of daily life all over the world, with Spotify, in particular, inheriting and reconfiguring characteristics of older ways of publishing, distributing, and consuming media.
The contributors look to the broader community of music, media, and cultural researchers to spell out some of the implications of the Spotification of music and popular culture. These include changes in personal media consumption and production, educational processes, and the work of media industries. Interdisciplinary scholarship on commercial digital distribution is needed more than ever to illuminate the qualitative changes to production, distribution, and consumption accompanying streaming music and television.
This book represents the latest research and theory on the conversion of mass markets for recorded music to streaming services.
Patrick Burkart is Editor in Chief of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture (with Christian Christiansen). He is Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University, USA, and author of Why Hackers Win: Power and Disruption in the Network Society (University of California Press, 2019, with Tom McCourt), Pirate Politics: The New Information Policy Contests (MIT Press, 2014), Music and Cyberliberties (Wesleyan University Press, 2010), and Digital Music Wars: Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, with Tom McCourt).
Spotification of Popular Culture in the Field of Popular Communication
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First published 2020
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Contents
Amelia Besseny
Chris Nickell
Marcus ODair and Andrew Fry
Benjamin A. Morgan
Arnt Maas and Anja Nylund Hagen
Dani Gurgel, Luli Radfahrer, Alexandre Regattieri Bessa, Daniel Torres Guinezi and Daniel Cukier
Ann Werner
Waleed Rashidi
Index
The following chapters were originally published in the Popular Communication, volume 18, issue 1 (January 2020). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Lost in spotify: folksonomy and wayfinding functions in spotifys interface and companion apps
Amelia Besseny
Popular Communication, volume 18, issue 1 (January 2020) pp. 117
Chapter 2
Promises and Pitfalls: The Two-Faced Nature of Streaming and Social Media Platforms for Beirut-Based Independent Musicians
Chris Nickell
Popular Communication, volume 18, issue 1 (January 2020) pp. 4864
Chapter 3
Beyond the black box in music streaming: the impact of recommendation systems upon artists
Marcus ODair and Andrew Fry
Popular Communication, volume 18, issue 1 (January 2020) pp. 6577
Chapter 4
Revenue, access, and engagement via the in-house curated Spotify playlist in Australia
Benjamin A. Morgan
Popular Communication, volume 18, issue 1 (January 2020) pp. 3247
Chapter 5
Metrics and decision-making in music streaming
Arnt Maas and Anja Nylund Hagen
Popular Communication, volume 18, issue 1 (January 2020) pp. 1831
Chapter 7
Organizing music, organizing gender: algorithmic culture and Spotify recommendations
Ann Werner
Popular Communication, volume 18, issue 1 (January 2020) pp. 7890
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Alexandre Regattieri Bessa, Mphil, Marketing Manager with international experience in managing digital marketing, consumer behavior, strategic planning, and B2B/B2C demand generation. Masters degree in Digital Communication at USP, Brazil, and Post-Graduation Professor.
Amelia Besseny, School of Creative Industries, University of Newcastle, Australia.
Daniel Cukier, PhD, Lauras father, CTO at PRAVALER, co-founder at Playax, PhD in Computer Science, software geek, Google developer expert in Cloud Computing and Virtual Assistant and amateur musician.
Andrew Fry, Independent Scholar.
Daniel Torres Guinezi, Mphil, Mphil in Communication Studies, Bachelor in Economics and Communications, researcher from Datacracy ECA-USP, Brazil. Data Science consultant for media companies.
Dani Gurgel, Mphil, Brazilian photographer and musician; producing art through digital as CCO of Da P Virada. Mphil and PhD candidate at Datacracy, ECA-USP, Brazil. Professor at Senac University, Brazil.
Anja Nylund Hagen, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, Norway.
Arnt Maas, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway.
Benjamin A. Morgan, School of Media and Communication, Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Chris Nickell, Department of Music, New York University, USA.
Marcus ODair, Associate Dean of Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise, University of the Arts London, UK.
Luli Radfahrer, PhD, Associate Professor, Digital Communications, and Leader of Datacracy research group. School of Communications and Arts, University of So Paulo, Brazil.