Sebastian Cole
@sebascole.bsky.social
Researcher at IMK, University of Oslo | media and communication | music | algorithms | streaming platforms
New article in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social! In this article I explore how users reflect on and decide what to listen to when using Spotify. To do this I developed a framework for understanding reflexive decision-making in the context of music streaming from a critical realist perspective.
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May 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
New article in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social! In this article I explore how users reflect on and decide what to listen to when using Spotify. To do this I developed a framework for understanding reflexive decision-making in the context of music streaming from a critical realist perspective.
New article! It’s time to start talking about Christmas music! @yarin.bsky.social and I use qualitative interviews, donated digital trace data, and data from Spotify’s API to compare “real” user-generated Christmas playlists with “artificial” playlists created by Spotify’s algorithms.
Curating Christmas | M/C Journal
Introduction
As music listening transitions from physical to digital formats, the model for how people organise and discover new music is being taken over by the features of digital streaming servic...
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November 27, 2024 at 11:02 AM
New article! It’s time to start talking about Christmas music! @yarin.bsky.social and I use qualitative interviews, donated digital trace data, and data from Spotify’s API to compare “real” user-generated Christmas playlists with “artificial” playlists created by Spotify’s algorithms.
In this article (from my dissertation, defended last May!) I discuss how Spotify users practice reflexivity when interpreting algorithmic recommendations and deciding what to listen to.
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November 27, 2024 at 11:00 AM
In this article (from my dissertation, defended last May!) I discuss how Spotify users practice reflexivity when interpreting algorithmic recommendations and deciding what to listen to.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....