Sebastian Cole

Researcher at IMK @UniOslo | media and communication | music | algorithms | streaming platforms
Also @[email protected]

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I analyzed a combination of user interviews and their donated streaming histories and found three listening modes. These suggest that users are not only guided by algorithmic recommendations or habits but reflexively choose music based on their emotions, contexts, and goals.

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New article in @BigDataSoc! Here I explore how users reflect on and decide what to listen to when using Spotify. I developed a framework for understanding reflexive decision-making in the context of music streaming from a critical realist perspective. https://t.co/MOHnkeqcMl

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Access the full “Artificial” special issue here: https://t.co/Zn75n5eCgT

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New publication! In this article, @jessixarobinson 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. https://t.co/2UGjMJkpa4

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We found that while users show more eclecticism in their tastes—and even subversion of the Christmas genre—Spotify playlists, while traditional, also promote Norwegian-language music.

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@isiles @Convergence_NMT Muchas gracias!

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An article from my dissertation (defended last May!) is out now @Convergence_NMT ! In this paper I discuss how Spotify users practice reflexivity when interpreting algorithmic recommendations and deciding what to listen to. https://t.co/7OjpF1vtXk

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@sapiensgil @Convergence_NMT Thanks!

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A few words I wrote on algorithmic music recommendations
https://t.co/EZy6aXcFIt

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Join us next June in Oslo for the NECS2023 Conference and Graduate Workshop! Check the CfP here https://t.co/MCLdpJNHDk

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I'm still here, but also figuring out how Mastodon works at @[email protected]

[Vilde Schanke Sundet @vildess]

No less than three (!) paid PhD positions at our Department of Media and Communication at @UniOsloHF. Deadline: January 4th

https://t.co/4fka1hlQJu

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Glad to be back in Dublin for #AoIR2022 Great chats and discussions at the doctoral colloquium and the main sessions!

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After cancelled flights and long train rides, I made it just in time to Aarhus for my first ECREA #ECREA2022 Looking forward to meeting old and new friends in the next few days!

[Global Digital Cultures @uva_gdc]

“Media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, we just go where the fun party is, don’t we?” Wise words from @jeanburgess

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Happy to be back in Amsterdam to present today the first findings of my project on Spotify's affordances at #GDC_UVA22

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@supercamilla @UniOsloHF Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[Ignacio Siles @isiles]

How do Latin American artists make sense of platforms & algorithms? In this paper out today in @JCultEcon we examine artists’ approaches to playlisting in Mexico and Costa Rica. Co-authored with an incredible team: @amyross87, @risolisq80 & Moni Sancho. ✨https://t.co/apqWQJRl3e

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@teresaelena_w @IPKW_univie @_sophism_ @DBetakova @solecheler Congrats! 👏🏻