Personalized consumption niches chain listeners to their own preferences
Evidence
The internet and the iPod are part of a new economy of musical consumption in which, thus far, the possibilities of being abducted seem attenuated. In a world of niches, we are enchained by our own consumer preferences. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1286
Categorization
- QUESTION: Fisher writes in 2004-2016; algorithmic streaming has intensified this niche self-enchainment since. Worth testing whether the argument still holds or has been reversed.
- XREF: connects to: Recommendation algorithms reinforce an archetypal self instead of broadening taste; Algorithms reinforce existing tastes rather than challenging or expanding them — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 709
Broader Connections
- Algorithms reinforce existing tastes rather than challenging or expanding them
#corroborates(0.90) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 709 - Recommendation algorithms reinforce an archetypal self instead of broadening taste
#corroborates(0.85)