Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation

by Nick Seaver

Book Overview

Meet the people who design the algorithms that capture our musical tastes.

The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners' horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, taking advantage of the enormous catalogs offered by companies like Spotify, Apple Music, and Pandora. But for their critics, recommender systems seem to embody all the potential harms of algorithms: they flatten...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226822974
• ISBN13: 9780226822976
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"