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dc.rights.licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcodenone
dc.contributor.authorEriksson, Marianone
dc.contributor.authorJohansson, Annanone
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-01T11:45:35Z
dc.date.available2019-08-01T11:45:35Z
dc.date.issued2017none
dc.identifier.issn2000-1525none
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.genderopen.de/25595/1426
dc.description.abstractOne of the most prominent features of digital music services is the provision of personalized music recommendations that come about through the profiling of users and audiences. Based on a range of “bot experiments,” this article investigates if, and how, gendered patterns in music recommendations are provided by the streaming service Spotify. While our experiments did not give any strong indications that Spotify assigns different taste profiles to male and female users, the study showed that male artists were highly overrepresented in Spotify’s music recommendations; an issue which we argue prompts users to cite hegemonic masculine norms within the music industries. Although the results should be approached as historically and contextually contingent, we argue that they point to how gender and gendered tastes may be constituted through the interplay between users and algorithmic knowledge-making processes, and how digital content delivery may maintain and challenge gender relations and gendered power differentials within the music industries. Seen through the lens of critical research on software, music and gender performativity, the experiments thus provide insights into how gender is shaped and attributed meaning as it materializes in contemporary music streams.none
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.subject.ddc306 Kultur und Institutionennone
dc.subject.othergendernone
dc.subject.othermusicnone
dc.subject.otheralgorithmsnone
dc.subject.otherstreamingnone
dc.subject.otherdigital methodsnone
dc.titleTracking Gendered Streamsnone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25595/1420
dc.source.pageinfo163-183none
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
dc.source.journalCulture unbound : Journal of current cultural researchnone
dc.source.issue2none
dc.source.volume9none
dc.identifier.pi10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1792163none
local.typeZeitschriftenartikel


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