Nick Seaver

Anthropologist, Tufts University



Shaping the Stream: The Techniques and Troubles of Algorithmic RecommendationThis chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture, co-authored with Kaleb Goldschmitt, provides an overview of algoirithmic recommenders in contemporary music streaming services, describing how they work, how they relate to other algorithmic applications, and problems that have emerged from their use.
August 2019