Provincializing Spotify: Radio, algorithms and conviviality.
Focusing on early experiments with algorithms and music streaming at WFMU, the longest-running US freeform radio station, and the Free Music Archive (FMA), a curated open music website, this article shows how commercial streaming services have been indebted to independent, open music infrastructures...
| Publicado en: | Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 29 - 43 |
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Intellect Ltd.
Apr2020
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