Meier, LM and Manzerolle, VR (2019) Rising tides? Data capture, platform accumulation, and new monopolies in the digital music economy. New Media & Society, 21 (3). pp. 543-561. ISSN 1461-4448
Abstract
This article examines the roles of platform-based distribution and user data in the digital music economy. Drawing on trade press, newspaper coverage, and a consumer privacy complaint, we offer a critical analysis of tech-music partnerships forged between Samsung and Jay-Z (2013), Apple iTunes Store and U2 (2014), Tidal and Kanye West (2016), and Apple Music and Drake (2017). In these cases, information technology (IT) companies supported album releases, and music was used to generate user data and attention: logics of data and attention capture were interwoven. The IT and music industries have adapted their business strategies to what we conceptualize as platform-based capital accumulation or ‘platform accumulation’, and models centred on controlling access and extracting rent have enabled the emergence of new monopolies and IT gatekeepers.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2018. This is an author produced version of a paper published in New Media & Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Data capture, information technology, music industries, platforms, promotion, streaming, user data |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2018 11:46 |
Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2019 11:10 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1461444818800998 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:137697 |