Seaver, Nick
Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation
- ISBN 13:
- 9780226822976
- author:
- Seaver, Nick
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 22.9 x 15.5 x 1.4 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Music, General, Music,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The people behind music recommendation algorithms have ambitious goals: to broaden listeners' horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences. However, their critics see recommender systems as embodying the potential harms of algorithms - flattening culture into numbers, normalizing data collection, and profiling users for commercial ends. Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork, anthropologist Nick Seaver explores how the makers of music recommendation navigate these tensions. He examines how product managers understand their relationship with users, how scientists conceive of listening 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. This book rehumanizes the algorithmic systems that shape our world, bringing together the thinking of programmers and anthropologists to create a vividly theorized exploration of computation and culture.
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