Age-old practices in the 'new world': a study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Listening in: practices surrounding iTunes music sharing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Consuming Music Together
Social music services in teenage life: a case study
Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction
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The effects of digitalization for music sharing have been debated vastly. However, the new practices of making widely available music meaningful for those who share it remain largely uncovered. We set out to study this through exploring how the tweens of early 2010's face this challenge. In a qualitative exploration with Finnish children aged 10-13 years, we identified practices of making digital music meaningful: socially considerate sharing, modification and associations outside music, and consideration for the difficulties of infrastructure. We find that the content gains value in the socio-technical network of sharing practices. This observation challenges the notions of digital music as a ""mass"" format lacking personal or social value.