Price hikes and controversies have landed Spotify in hot water – with some artists opting to pull their music from the platform.
- Associate Dean and Associate Professor in Social Sciences, University of Canberra
Memes have featured in anti-vaccine messaging for centuries and their power to spread harmful health disinformation is growing.
To understand the changing nature of music listening, I interviewed users of streaming services about how they listen to music.
Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is a ‘bible’ for scholars, voted a top 10 book of the 20th century. It also fascinated general readers, as a guide to social manners.
Quiet hour is a strategy aimed at making retail spaces more inclusive for people who struggle with sensory overload, but they’re not the only ones who welcome a pause in the assault on their senses.
Australia’s first major time-use survey since 2006 shows unpaid domestic and caring responsibilities are still principally done by women.
We often talk about ‘emotional labour’ as performed by those who take on the emotional workload within families or relationships. But the term has a specific meaning – and that’s not what it is.
Las redes sociales no pueden ser verdaderas ‘plazas públicas’. Menos aún las que tienen un solo dueño y son privadas, como va a ocurrir ahora con Twitter.
Musk has long touted Twitter’s potential as an open and inclusive ‘town square’ for public discourse – but the reality is social media platforms were never meant to fulfil this role.
Anti-vaccination Instagram posts deliberately depict mothers in a certain way to drive up rates of vaccine hesitancy.
Twitter’s design promotes avoidance as the solution to hostility, but it also needs space for restorative activity that could genuinely resolve conflict.
Videographers have become an integral part of many Australians’ wedding days – sometimes even screening their video before the day is over.
LMITO excludes low earners and isn’t timely.
Spotify is offering to boost artists’ position on its playlists in return for paying them lower royalties. Can struggling musicians afford to say no?
Social media companies need to be more transparent about the health misinformation they remove.
Even though the way we access pop music has changed and gone digital, hitmakers lag behind other industries in terms of globalisation.
Antes sometíamos a los amigos a pases de diapositivas vacacionales. Ahora compartimos los viajes en vivo con una audiencia remota.
Where once we subjected friends to post-holiday slideshows, now we share travel selfies live with a remote audience. This study teased out the tension between snapping and experiencing the trip.
The music we choose to listen to not only allows us to retreat into a place of peace and privacy, but also helps frame our daily routines and interactions with others.
A new study of ‘clean eating’ posts on Instagram has found that men - and muscles - feature more prominently than women.
The changing nature of work means the knowledge capabilities of cities are more important than ever. Here’s what the new Knowledge City Index tells us about 25 Australian cities.
Unlike vision or touch, sound is much more difficult to control or avoid; music in particular spills across thresholds and intrudes into situations where it is unwelcome.
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