Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation

Meet the people who design the algorithms that capture our musical tastes. The people who make music...
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Author: Nick Seaver
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Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation by Seaver, Nick

Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation

CHF 43.62

Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation

CHF 43.62
Author: Nick Seaver
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Nick Seaver
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 12/06/2022
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780226822976


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2022 pg. 127

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