Music Collectivities and MySpace: Towards Digital Collectives

Music collectivities have been changed by the use  of   digital   technologies   in   terms   of   more   flexibility  among participants. This claim is so widely shared,  that understanding if and how it makes sense is a  difficult but engaging task. Unfortunately, the concepts  used   to   frame   music   collectivities   until   now   result  unsatisfying for their different degrees of fixity. As a  theoretical solution, we move to the concept of “digital  collective” as considered in reference to the case of  music   collectivities   on   the   social   network   site  MySpace.  We argue that this concept  is a starting  point for an analysis that focuses on the processes of  collective construction, without a priori assumptions  on the collectivities. In the example considered, the  flexibility of the concept is shown as powerful both in  understanding...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Camilla Rossi, Maurizio Teli
• Keywords: Biometrics, Collective” as considered in reference to the case of Music Collectivities, HICSS 2009, Music Collectivities, Network Site Myspace, System Sciences