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        Date: 2024-07-16 10:55:42+00:00
        From: David Hesmondhalgh <D.J.Hesmondhalgh@leeds.ac.uk>
        Subject: new article on platform interface analysis

Dear colleagues, here's a link to an open access article, just published in
International Journal of Communication, on critical analysis of platform
interfaces, using music streaming platforms as a case study. Details and an
abstract are below; I hope it's of interest to some of you.

Kind regards, Dave Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds



Critically Analyzing Platform Interfaces: How Music-Streaming Platforms Frame
Musical Experience

David Hesmondhalgh, Raquel Campos Valverde, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Zhongwei
Li

https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/21989

This article identifies and contributes to a small but growing body of
research that critically analyzes the user interfaces of digital platforms and
apps. By examining how the interfaces of music-streaming platforms (MSPs) frame
musical experience, we test claims that such platforms encourage "functional"
and "mood-based" uses of music linked to problematic forms of power and
subjectivity. While such framings are indeed evident in MSP interfaces, so too
are other, rather different constructions of engagement with music. We argue
that one significant power of MSPs is to incorporate diverse forms of musical
experience into pervasive hybrids. Our approach advances interface analysis and
research on the platformization of culture by illustrating the benefits of
critical platform interface analysis through intra-domain platform interface
analysis, and by offering general and music-specific taxonomies of digital
platform interfaces.


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