Christine Bauer, Markus Schedl,
"Investigating Cross-Country Relationship Between Users´ Social Ties and Music Mainstreaminess"
: Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 8-2018
Original Titel:
Investigating Cross-Country Relationship Between Users´ Social Ties and Music Mainstreaminess
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference
Original Kurzfassung:
We investigate the complex relationship between the factors
(i) preference for music mainstream, (ii) social ties
in an online music platform, and (iii) demographics. We
define (i) on a global and a country level, (ii) by several
network centrality measures such as Jaccard index among
users? connections, closeness centrality, and betweenness
centrality, and (iii) by country and age information. Using
the LFM-1b dataset of listening events of Last.fm users,
we are able to uncover country-dependent differences in
consumption of mainstream music as well as in user behavior
with respect to social ties and users? centrality. We
could identify that users inclined to mainstream music tend
to have stronger connections than the group of less mainstreamy
users. Furthermore, our analysis revealed that
users typically have less connections within a country than
cross-country ones, with the first being stronger social ties,
though. Results will help building better user models of
listeners and in turn improve personalized music retrieval
and recommendation algorithms.
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