ABSTRACT Spotify is self-reporting to have 232 million monthly active users in July 2019, including 108 million paying subscribers. Often naturalized by listeners as a mere window into great collections of music, Spotify is an intricate network of music recommendations governed by algorithms, displayed as a visual interface of photos, text, clickable links, and graphics. With the aim to analyze how three Spotify functions, related artists, discover, and browse, organize and represent gender while organizing and representing music Spotify is here investigated through empirical material collected in qualitative online ethnographic studies during 2013–2015. The article problematizes how music is organized in algorithmic culture and uncovers gendering that can ensue as a result of the service’s recommendation algorithms: creating closer circles for music consumption, and organizing music by similarities in genre and gender.

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组织音乐，组织性别：算法文化和 Spotify 推荐

摘要 Spotify 自我报告称，2019 年 7 月每月有 2.32 亿活跃用户，其中包括 1.08 亿付费用户。Spotify 通常被听众归化为进入大量音乐收藏的窗口，它是一个由算法控制的复杂音乐推荐网络，显示为照片、文本、可点击链接和图形的视觉界面。为了分析 Spotify 的三个功能，相关艺术家如何在组织和代表音乐的同时发现和浏览、组织和代表性别，这里通过 2013-2015 年定性在线民族志研究收集的经验材料对 Spotify 进行了调查。这篇文章对音乐在算法文化中的组织方式提出了问题，并揭示了服务推荐算法可能导致的性别问题：