Do the shuffle: Exploring reasons for music listening through shuffled play.

ABSTRACT: Adults listen to music for an average of 18 hours a week (with some people reaching more than double that). With rapidly changing technology, music collections have become overwhelmingly digital ushering in changes in listening habits, especially when it comes to listening on personal devices. By using interactive visualizations, descriptive analysis and thematic analysis, this project aims to explore why people download and listen to music and which aspects of the music listening experience are prioritized when people talk about tracks on their device. Using a newly developed data collection method, Shuffled Play, 397 participants answered open-ended and closed research questions through a short online questionnaire after shuffling their music library and playing two pieces as prompts for

SUBMITTER: Sanfilippo KRM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7004375 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature