[Commlist] impact of recommendation algorithms on music - a literature review

David Hesmondhalgh and three other researchers at the University of 
Leeds have just published a major literature review of///The Impact of 
Algorithmically Driven Recommendation Systems on Music Consumption and 
Production/. 
<https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/research-into-the-impact-of-streaming-services-algorithms-on-music-consumption/the-impact-of-algorithmically-driven-recommendation-systems-on-music-consumption-and-production-a-literature-review>

·We are David Hesmondhalgh, Raquel Campos Valverde, *D. Bondy Valdovinos 
Kaye and Zhongwei Li. *We hope it’ll be of interest to anyone interested 
in algorithmic recommendation, not just in the realm of music.

·The research was commissioned by the UK government’s Centre for Data 
Ethics and Innovation (CDEI). It was published as part of the UK 
government’s response to the UK House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media 
and Sport (DCMS) Select Committee’s critical report on /The Economics of 
Music Streaming/ 
<https://committees.parliament.uk/work/646/economics-of-music-streaming/publications/>. 


*·**At around 25,000 words, the review is one of the most comprehensive 
discussions of cultural recommendation systems yet published. We’ve 
tried to consider perspectives from computer science and from critical 
science and humanities, to a greater degree than we’ve encountered in 
existing publications. ***

*·**All four of us work on MUSICSTREAM, a five-year project funded by a 
European Research Council Advanced Research Grant. More details can be 
found *here <https://musicstreamproject.com/>*. *

·The literature review was published alongside the CDEI’s report on /The 
Impact of Recommendation Algorithms on the UK Music Industry/ 
<https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/research-into-the-impact-of-streaming-services-algorithms-on-music-consumption/the-impact-of-algorithmically-driven-recommendation-systems-on-music-consumption-and-production-a-literature-review>, 
which makes considerable use of the MUSICSTREAM analysis.

*·**The CDEI has also made available *potentially helpful results 
<https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/research-into-the-impact-of-streaming-services-algorithms-on-music-consumption/the-impact-of-algorithmically-driven-recommendation-systems-on-music-consumption-and-production-a-literature-review>*from 
a) a survey of over 4000 UK adults about their music consumption 
practices and b) a survey of 102 UK music creators about their views of 
music streaming platforms and their recommendation systems.***

*·**We hope you find the literature review and the other material useful 
and interesting. We would of course welcome comments and constructive 
criticism. *


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