The widespread uptake of digital platforms–from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and
TikTok–is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways …

An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of
audio files into streamed experience. Spotify provides a streaming service that has been …

Meet the people who design the algorithms that capture our musical tastes. The people who
make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners' horizons …

Big data is driving the use of algorithm in governing mundane but mission-critical tasks.
Algorithms seldom operate on their own and their (dis) utilities are dependent on the …

Where does the “power” of platformization reside? As is widely recognized, platforms are
matchmakers which interface between different markets or “sides.” This article analyzes …

In music streaming services like Spotify, discrete pieces of music no longer has a price, as
has traditionally been the case in music retailing, both analog and digital. This article …

This article examines a striking but under-analysed feature of culture under capitalism, using
the example of music: that the main ways in which people gain access to cultural …

Fostering the conversion of free users to premium subscribers and retaining those premium
users are critical objectives for freemium service providers. Building on consumer value …

This report identifies two main bodies of academic research that pay sustained attention to
algorithmic recommendation in the realm of culture: a) academic computer science and b) …

It has been widely recognized that platforms utilize their editorial capacity to transform the
industries they intermediate. In this paper, we examine the intermediary role of the leading …