Folk theories of algorithmic recommendations on Spotify: Enacting data assemblages in the global South

This paper examines folk theories of algorithmic recommendations on Spotify in order to make visible the cultural specificities of data assemblages in the global South. The study was conducted in Costa Rica and draws on triangulated data from 30 interviews, 4 focus groups with 22 users, and the stud...

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Main Authors: Ignacio Siles, Andrés Segura-Castillo, Ricardo Solís, Mónica Sancho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-04-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951720923377