Collaborative Playlists around the World: A Cross-Cultural User Study
Collaborative playlists (CPs) enable users of streaming platforms to share and discover music through co-curation. Recent studies involving predominantly North American samples have found that CPs are created for a variety of contexts, help users organize and access music, facilitate music discovery...
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| author | So Yeon Park Jin Ha Lee Audrey Laplante Xiao Hu Blair Kaneshiro |
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| description | Collaborative playlists (CPs) enable users of streaming platforms to share and discover music through co-curation. Recent studies involving predominantly North American samples have found that CPs are created for a variety of contexts, help users organize and access music, facilitate music discovery, and support social connections. Yet, despite these important benefits, little is known about how CP usage aligns or varies across different cultures. We conducted an exploratory study to better understand the landscape of collaborative music engagement with a focus on Hong Kong, South Korea, Quebec, and the United States. We found that across these cultures, previously established purposes for engaging in CPs apply, yet with different degrees of emphasis. Perceived and expected CP outcomes and broader perspectives on social connection through music also varied by location and CP user type. With these findings we discuss primary similarities and differences across the studied cultures and highlight directions for future investigations to further elucidate how music platforms with CP functionalities—and social capabilities more generally—can better help users achieve their desired goals around music. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3438e0d4e1d04903b29be8c35b73fdcf2025-01-08T08:41:56ZengUbiquity PressTransactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval2514-32982024-12-0171288–305288–30510.5334/tismir.169169Collaborative Playlists around the World: A Cross-Cultural User StudySo Yeon Park0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2508-6942Jin Ha Lee1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9007-514XAudrey Laplante2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0480-0182Xiao Hu3Blair Kaneshiro4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0364-6985Stanford University, 424 Panama Mall, 94305University of Washington, 1851 NE Grant Lane, 98105Université de Montréal, 3150 rue Jean-Brillant, H3T 1N8University of Hong Kong, Meng Wah ComplexStanford University, 660 Lomita Drive, 94305Collaborative playlists (CPs) enable users of streaming platforms to share and discover music through co-curation. Recent studies involving predominantly North American samples have found that CPs are created for a variety of contexts, help users organize and access music, facilitate music discovery, and support social connections. Yet, despite these important benefits, little is known about how CP usage aligns or varies across different cultures. We conducted an exploratory study to better understand the landscape of collaborative music engagement with a focus on Hong Kong, South Korea, Quebec, and the United States. We found that across these cultures, previously established purposes for engaging in CPs apply, yet with different degrees of emphasis. Perceived and expected CP outcomes and broader perspectives on social connection through music also varied by location and CP user type. With these findings we discuss primary similarities and differences across the studied cultures and highlight directions for future investigations to further elucidate how music platforms with CP functionalities—and social capabilities more generally—can better help users achieve their desired goals around music.https://account.transactions.ismir.net/index.php/up-j-tismir/article/view/169collaborative playlistasianorth americacross-culturalcross-geographicalmusic streamingmusic sharingonline collaborationuser studysurvey |
| spellingShingle | So Yeon Park Jin Ha Lee Audrey Laplante Xiao Hu Blair Kaneshiro Collaborative Playlists around the World: A Cross-Cultural User Study Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval collaborative playlist asia north america cross-cultural cross-geographical music streaming music sharing online collaboration user study survey |
| title | Collaborative Playlists around the World: A Cross-Cultural User Study |
| title_full | Collaborative Playlists around the World: A Cross-Cultural User Study |
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| title_short | Collaborative Playlists around the World: A Cross-Cultural User Study |
| title_sort | collaborative playlists around the world a cross cultural user study |
| topic | collaborative playlist asia north america cross-cultural cross-geographical music streaming music sharing online collaboration user study survey |
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