Nothing personal
Algorithmic individuation on music streaming platforms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11268943 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Prey (0000-0002-2339-5872, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1086-1100 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0163443717745147 |
| PMID | 30270951 |
| OpenAlex | W2774310041 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 100 |
| References cited | 23 |
Raymond Williams once wrote, ‘... there are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses’. In an age of personalized media, the word ‘masses’ seems like an anachronism. Nevertheless, if Williams were to study contemporary online platforms, he would no doubt conclude that there are in fact no individuals, but only ways of seeing people as individuals. This article explores this idea by taking a closer look at online music streaming services. It first conducts a comparison of how two leading streaming platforms conceive of the individual music listener. Then, drawing from Gilbert Simondon’s theory of individuation, it demonstrates how ways of seeing the individual work to enact the individual on these platforms. In particular, ways of seeing are heavily influenced by the consumer categories that are defined and demanded by advertisers. This article concludes with an examination of how commercial imperatives shape ‘ways of seeing’ and ‘algorithmic individuation’ on music streaming platforms
Epistemology · Individuation · Internet privacy · Multimedia · Nothing · Psychoanalysis · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Music Technology and Sound Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
Constructing an Elite
De embudos, filtros y brújulas
Digital Valuation
Beyond cyberutopia and digital disenchantment
Artificial Communication
Identity Driven Information Ecosystems
The harder I work, the luckier I get”
Wellness creep into music streaming platforms
Resonance, Reverberation, and Rhythms
The Environmentalization of space and listening
The politics, aesthetics and dissonance of music in everyday life
Commodifying the microbial self
Targeted individuals
Di̇ji̇tal Yerli̇lerden Di̇ji̇tal Göçmenlere
La musique comme analyseur
Les mutations algorithmiques des politiques culturelles
‘Don’t pretend to know how I feel’
Algorithmic imaginary in surveillance technicity
Development and Validation of an Algorithm Literacy Scale for Internet Users
Ubiquitous tunes, virtuous archiving and catering for algorithms
Music streaming platforms and self-releasing musicians
Blind search and flexible product visions
The influence of continuance intention on users’ well-being and intention to recommend online music streaming applications
Subjectivity and algorithmic imaginaries
Algorithms of Resistance
Digital Platforms and Algorithmic Subjectivities
Track Thyself? The Value and Ethics of Self-knowledge Through Technology
Feminist AI
Everyday artificial intelligence unveiled
“If you don’t have a strong social media game, you might as well hang up your instrument”
Music Streaming as a Mediated Process
Revenge of the machines
Seeing like an infrastructure
Identifying songs of social justice and protest for social work education
(Plat)formatted Creativity
Affective Landscapes, Scenes, and Arrangements
De la radio a spotify
Wrap your head around it
Self and others in algorithmic governmentality
Popular Music, Technology, and the Changing Media Ecosystem
From P2P to the cloud
Sound Health
Promises and Pitfalls
Beyond the black box in music streaming
The return of the social
Dead formats, living futures
An algorithmic event
Algorithmic selfing
Splendid Isolation”
Personalising clinical pathways in a London breast cancer service
Postdigital cultural studies
Music streaming, cultural consumption and the everyday routines of algorithm management
Expressive Data
Mirroring the inequalities of mainstream music platforms
The platformisation of culture
Datafication and the push for ubiquitous listening in music streaming
Streaming media
Stock et flux
Glasba na slovenskih radijskih postajah
Music, Digitalization, and Democracy
Listening, but Not Being Heard
Stages, Platforms, Streams
Popular Music and LGBTQ+ Identities in the Age of Streaming
Algorithmic Personalization as a Mode of Individuation
New currents, old boundaries
Mood playlists, biopower, and the “functional turn” in online media
Theorizing and Documenting Cultural Insularity in the Center
Theorising TikTok cultures
Auto-communicative reconstruction of meaningfulness in musical randomness
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms
The end of social media? How data attraction model in the algorithmic media reshapes the attention economy
Algorithmic logics and the construction of cultural taste of the Netflix Recommender System
From creator to data
I’m also slightly conscious of how much I’m listening to something’
Digitalisierte intime Bewertung
Die Ordnung der Empfehlung
Big Observation – Ein Vergleich moderner Beobachtungsformate am Beispiel von amtlicher Statistik und Recommendersystemen
Digital capitalism, platformization and coloniality
Data mirroring
Your Wrapped doesn’t lie”
Social media-fication in the apposphere
Subjectivity, culture and the datafication of music
The politics of appearance on digital platforms
Data orientalism
First Week Is Editorial, Second Week Is Algorithmic
Genres as Social Affect
Intimate valuation devices
A video or a flat fee?' on the performances of concert fees
From selling songs to engineering experiences
Algorithms for her? 2
Folk theories of algorithmic recommendations on Spotify
Audiência plataformizada
Les algorithmes de recommandation musicale et l'autonomie de l'auditeur
Les glitchs, ces moments où les algorithmes tremblent
The techno-social reproduction of taste boundaries on digital platforms
Streaming de conteúdo, streaming de si? Elementos para análise do consumo personalizado em plataformas de streaming
Spotify (Un)wrapped
Adolescents' Music Tastes in the Streaming Era
Rethinking Materiality of Music
Rampant Abstraction as a Strategy of Singularization
We Are Data
Performing Rites
Desperately Seeking the Audience
Distinction
Keywords (Routledge Revivals)
Technologies of Taste
Critique, Social Media and the Information Society
Cultural Theory
Human nature and the social order
Industry Conceptions of Audience in the Digital Space
Bourdieu and the Sociology of Music Consumption
The Hollywood TV Producer
Newsmen's Fantasies, Audiences, and Newswriting
The nice thing about context is that everyone has it
The surveillant assemblage
Real social analytics
Media In Our Image
On Sociology and STS
A New Algorithmic Identity
Data Derivatives
Population Objects
| Unique citing works | 100 |
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| Citations per year | 14,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 96 |