(x-posted on Super Bon!) In late March and early April, I attended three events that together signal some interesting shifts in thinking about music technology and sound. The first, a day-long symposium on March 24th I co-organized with Nancy Baym, was entitled "What Is Music Technology For?" It came after a weekend-long instalment of MusicTechFest, …
Month: May 2014
A Manifesto For Music Technologists
March 21-23, we held the first Music Tech Fest in North America at Microsoft Research New England. It was a three day bonanza of ideas spanning a mind-bending spectrum of ways to connect music and technology. The day after, 21 scholars met for a symposium we called What is Music Technology For? Our goal was …
Adding the bling: The role of social media data intermediaries
Last month, Twitter announced the acquisition of Gnip, one of the main sources for social media data—including Twitter data. In my research I am interested in the politics of platforms and data flows in the social web and in this blog post I would like to explore the role of data intermediaries—Gnip in particular—in regulating access to social media …
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SMC is hiring a Research Assistant!
UPDATE: At this time we have a great pool for 2014 and are no longer accepting applications. ---- Microsoft Research (MSR) is looking for a Research Assistant for its Social Media Collective in the New England lab, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Social Media Collective consists of Nancy Baym, Mary Gray, Jessa Lingel, and Kevin …
Social Media Collective 