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Dougal Shakespeare
@dougalshakes.bsky.social
Researching the relation between music streaming platforms, their design + listening concentration within RECORDS in colab. with @Deezer.

CNRS / EHESS.
until recently @css-cnrs.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Finally, examining similarities between platform affordances we show how human curated "editorial playlists" (E) currently play an invaluable role - they expose users' to more novel artists which are also, +semantically diverse compared to other affordances. (5/5)
February 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
At a more aggregate scale (inter-sessions) we observe a striking diff. between conclusions reached via different info. representation methods - again A devices foster the most dense, semantic artist diversity but now also the least artist novelty! (4/5)
February 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Within "sessions" of platform engagement, algo. devices (A) foster relatively high levels of dense and discrete diversity compared to those that rely on manually searching / browsing the platform "organically" via the Q affordance. (3/5)
February 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Different temporal scales & info. representation methods (dense, spatial vs discrete, repetition based) lead to strikingly different algo. concentration conclusions... (2/5)
February 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM