Dougal Shakespeare

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Music and Computational Social Science Research Fellow in Music and Computational Social Science, School of Media and CommunicationWorking with Professor David Hesmondhalgh, as part of a successful and well-established research project, MU...

Exciting opportunity to join the "MUSICSTREAM: Music Culture in the Age of Streaming" 🎵 project w/ @hesmondthing.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social

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📣 Soutenance de thèse de Dougal Shakespeare (CAMS, EHESS-CNRS / Centre Marc Bloch) "Multi-affordance Dynamics on Music Streaming Platforms – A Case Study on Deezer", sous la direction de Camille Roth

📍 14 octobre 2025 à 9h, en salle A7-37 au 54 bd Raspail

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Investigating Musical Taxonomy in the era of Streaming Platforms: Insights from Rap music through actual consumption data This paper examines the musical boundaries that emerge from the distinct consumption patterns of rap audiences. Using the actual listening histories o…

Fresh insights using Deezer data by my colleagues Myriam Boualami & Camille Roth! 🎵

Raises some important points re. how existing top-down musical categorisations align with ground-up categories emerging from on-platform listenings.

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Last chance to submit your abstract to our
"Network and Music" session at Sunbelt 2025 🎵

Deadline: February 20th 2025

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Finally, examining similarities between platform affordances we show how human curated "editorial playlists" (E) currently play an invaluable role - they expose users' to more novel artists which are also, +semantically diverse compared to other affordances. (5/5)

At a more aggregate scale (inter-sessions) we observe a striking diff. between conclusions reached via different info. representation methods - again A devices foster the most dense, semantic artist diversity but now also the least artist novelty! (4/5)

Within "sessions" of platform engagement, algo. devices (A) foster relatively high levels of dense and discrete diversity compared to those that rely on manually searching / browsing the platform "organically" via the Q affordance. (3/5)

Different temporal scales & info. representation methods (dense, spatial vs discrete, repetition based) lead to strikingly different algo. concentration conclusions... (2/5)

Reframing the filter bubble through diverse scale effects in online music consumption - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Reframing the filter bubble through diverse scale effects in online music consumption

New paper out (with @camcom.bsky.social & Victor Chareyron).
"Reframing the filter bubble through diverse scale effects in online music consumption" 🎵 📲 (1/5)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...