Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation - Couverture souple

Seaver, Nick

 
9780226822976: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0226822974 ISBN 13 : 9780226822976
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2022

Synopsis

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 and help obscure musicians find audiences, taking advantage of the enormous catalogs offered by companies like Spotify, Apple Music, and Pandora. But for their critics, recommender systems seem to embody all the potential harms of algorithms: they flatten culture into numbers, they normalize ever-broadening data collection, and they profile their users for commercial ends. Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork, anthropologist Nick Seaver describes how the makers of music recommendation navigate these tensions: how product managers understand their relationship with the users they want to help and to capture; how scientists conceive of listening itself as a kind of data processing; and how engineers imagine the geography of the world of music as a space they care for and control.

Computing Taste rehumanizes the algorithmic systems that shape our world, drawing attention to the people who build and maintain them. In this vividly theorized book, Seaver brings the thinking of programmers into conversation with the discipline of anthropology, opening up the cultural world of computation in a wide-ranging exploration that travels from cosmology to calculation, myth to machine learning, and captivation to care.

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À propos de l?auteur

Nick Seaver is assistant professor of anthropology at Tufts University. He is coeditor of Towards an Anthropology of Data.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226822974
ISBN 13 
9780226822976
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
219
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780226702261: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation

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ISBN 10 :  022670226X ISBN 13 :  9780226702261
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2022
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