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A brief epilogue describes Seaver's interview with the elusive founder of the pseudonymous music recommendation company Whisper, where Seaver had been embedded, who reflects back on the power to shape taste the company had accumulated, as well as uncertainty over whether it was a good idea. The intervention into the dominant critical frames of platforms is further articulated in the second chapter, I Captivating Algorithms i , wherein Seaver explores the oft-heard metaphor of content recommendation as a form of trapping the listener. Seaver develops a concept of musical avidity to explain how engineers view audiences primarily in terms of their musical enthusiasm, cultural status and knowledge. [Extracted from the article] |
