Listening in: practices surrounding iTunes music sharing

This paper presents a descriptive account of the social practices surrounding the iTunes music sharing of 13 participants in one organizational setting. Specifically, we characterize adoption, critical mass, and privacy; impression management and access control; the musical impressions of others that are created as a result of music sharing; the ways in which participants attempted to make sense of the dynamic system; and implications of the overlaid technical, musical, and corporate topologies. We interleave design implications throughout our results and relate those results to broader themes in a music sharing design space. Author Keywords iTunes, music sharing, discovery ACM Classification Keywords H.5.3 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Group and Organization Interfaces ? Collaborative Computing; J.5 [Arts and Humanities]: Music

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Amy Voida, Rebecca E. Grinter, Nicolas Ducheneaut, W. Keith Edwards, Mark W. Newman
• Keywords: ACM Classification Keywords, CHI 2005, Human Computer Interaction, ITunes Music Sharing, Music Sharing Design