Listening in: practices surrounding iTunes music sharing

  • Authors:
  • Amy Voida;Rebecca E. Grinter;Nicolas Ducheneaut;W. Keith Edwards;Mark W. Newman

  • Affiliations:
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper presents a descriptive account of the social practices surrounding the iTunes music sharing of 13 participants in one organizational setting. Specifically, we characterize adoption, critical mass, and privacy; impression management and access control; the musical impressions of others that are created as a result of music sharing; the ways in which participants attempted to make sense of the dynamic system; and implications of the overlaid technical, musical, and corporate topologies. We interleave design implications throughout our results and relate those results to broader themes in a music sharing design space.