Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud

Social media technologies have meant that people’s mu- sic consumption and production practices have rapidly changed and evolved. In this paper, we start to explore and present some of our initial findings in respect to this growing area of research by focusing upon the audio distribution platform S...

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Main Authors: Chamberlain, Alan, McGrath, Sean, Benford, Steve
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2015
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32859/
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Benford, Steve
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description Social media technologies have meant that people’s mu- sic consumption and production practices have rapidly changed and evolved. In this paper, we start to explore and present some of our initial findings in respect to this growing area of research by focusing upon the audio distribution platform SoundCloud. Technologies such as SoundCloud are enabling music producers and consumers a whole range of different ways in which they can engage, give/get feedback, promote, share, acquire, tag and make meaning of music. In this respect we are able to observe the role that such systems play in respect to: workflows and metadata production. The work also speaks about music consumption and production; as an individual and part of the crowd. We envisage that this paper will both provide a platform for future research and offer some insights into this world.
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spelling nottingham-328592020-05-04T17:25:59Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32859/ Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud Chamberlain, Alan McGrath, Sean Benford, Steve Social media technologies have meant that people’s mu- sic consumption and production practices have rapidly changed and evolved. In this paper, we start to explore and present some of our initial findings in respect to this growing area of research by focusing upon the audio distribution platform SoundCloud. Technologies such as SoundCloud are enabling music producers and consumers a whole range of different ways in which they can engage, give/get feedback, promote, share, acquire, tag and make meaning of music. In this respect we are able to observe the role that such systems play in respect to: workflows and metadata production. The work also speaks about music consumption and production; as an individual and part of the crowd. We envisage that this paper will both provide a platform for future research and offer some insights into this world. 2015-12-22 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Chamberlain, Alan, McGrath, Sean and Benford, Steve (2015) Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud. In: DMRN+10: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2015, 22nd December, 2015, Queen Mary University of London.
spellingShingle Chamberlain, Alan
McGrath, Sean
Benford, Steve
Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud
title Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud
title_full Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud
title_fullStr Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud
title_full_unstemmed Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud
title_short Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud
title_sort understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of soundcloud
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32859/