Campos Valverde, R (2022) Online musicking for humanity: the role of imagined listening and the moral economies of music sharing on social media. Popular Music, 41 (2). pp. 194-215. ISSN 0261-1430
Abstract
Music sharing on social media increasingly involves ‘imagined listening’, a form of sociality based on how we think that others listen to music (as well as on our own imagining of sounds) and typically mediated by the exchange of visual prompts, such as the thumbnail images associated with a particular streaming link or recording. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted online and offline with Spanish migrants in London, I show how practices of music sharing based on imagined listening articulate specific moral economies. In these economies, users imbue the sharing of music with positive value, as something that contributes to human flourishing and balances the negative aspects of social media and the world. I also consider how users reckon with the algorithmic manipulations of social media platforms and the fleeting forms of user engagement characteristic of an online world in which there is more music than could ever be heard.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. |
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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: | 16 Nov 2022 11:34 |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2022 11:34 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/s0261143022000034 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:193295 |