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    • Genres as Social Affect: Cultivating Moods and Emotions through Playlists on Spotify 

      Siles González, Ignacio; Segura Castillo, Andrés; Sancho Cordero, Mónica; Solís Quesada, Ricardo (2019-05-25)
      This article bridges work on media technologies and affect theories through an analysis of how users appropriate playlists on Spotify. Our study draws on 30 interviews with users of music streaming services in Costa Rica ...
    • Learning to like TikTok . . . and not: Algorithm awareness as process 

      Siles González, Ignacio; Valerio Alfaro, Luciana; Meléndez Moran, Ariana (2022-12-12)
      This article analyzes algorithm awareness as a process—a series of activities intended to reach a goal over time. It examines how a group of Costa Ricans understood, felt about, and related to TikTok and its algorithms as ...
    • Playing Spotify’s game: artists’ approaches to playlisting in Latin America 

      Siles González, Ignacio; Ross Arguedas, Amy A.; Sancho Cordero, Mónica; Solís Quesada, Ricardo (2022-04)
      This paper examines recent transformations in music industries associated with platformization by privileging the perspectives, experiences, and voices of artists. We draw on in-depth interviews with 41 musicians based in ...