downloads tell us about how computers use music to tell us about how we like music

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kinda interesting article about a recent study in to how downloading/internet tech shapes our personal intereaction and what our playlists might tell us about each other.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1365624.htm

now i have to finish reading and digest, but 1st some coffee...

― b b, Friday, 13 May 2005 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Sociology comes alive! One the internet! For music nerds!

Actually, the content of the article (that musical taste can say something about one's personality, and that playlists are easy ways to discover things about one's musical taste) shouldn't come as a big surprise for most of ILM. The most interesting part to me was how people manipulate their playlist to suit specific situations. I think sociologists call it "impression management".

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"One listener, for example, removed songs by Justin Timberlake and Michael McDonald that he had downloaded for his wife. He later admitted that he was worried what his co-workers would think about him."

they were totally his own.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

totally!

i'm with you dominique, nothing shocking, but being a former student of media theory i still get a bit dorky on these issues. (i feel the need to read what im sure is a pretty boring paper in full.)

the whole image production (control) via playlist is pretty funny. in martin amis' The Rachel Papers, the main character regularly organizes his room so that certain records are left about when certain girls come over. (we all do it!) its interesting how completely opaque lines of interaction actually make us more visable. at the same time, you never know who's looking or how to craft yr image.

― b b, Friday, 13 May 2005 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

the main character regularly organizes his room so that certain records are left about when certain girls come over. (we all do it!)

Haha! Shhh!!

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i think he would also set his turntable so it would stick to the locked groove at the end of Sgt. Pepper's...but the details are foggy...

― b b, Friday, 13 May 2005 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I the only person who is far too busy/lazy to sit around making playlists?

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i dont even have the capacity to. but i have left things lying in certain places for certain reasons...

― b b, Friday, 13 May 2005 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i dont do it either, though i could if i wanted.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

However, a similar study could be done on just the kinds of things people download from slsk or wherever. What do they choose to keep/trash? What do/don't they share? How do they classify things? etc

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it might be interesting to study how people organize their downloading. what else do they do while Soul Seeking?

― b b, Friday, 13 May 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess you could study my playlist habits and conclude that I am either very busy or very lazy.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 13 May 2005 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

My CDs wind up in big piles next to the rack; my version of "cleaning" is to redistribute bits of the piles so that better albums are on top.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Creating a playlist comes from the same place as DJing and making mixtapes; these are things that take extra effort & I only do them if other people are involved. I dunno -- I've only had my iPod for like 7 months but I just don't get the playlist thing.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

mark, i make one almost every day but it ends up being that i quickly look for about an hour's worth of new things i want to hear and whatever else wants to be played that day. since i do it in a hurry the list isn't always so good, but since it's usually balanced out by a bunch of things i like well enough i don't usually mind.

― Josh (Josh), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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