By Raphaël Nowak
This ebook addresses the problem of song intake within the electronic period of applied sciences. It explores how contributors use tune within the context in their daily lives and the way, in go back, track acquires convinced roles inside of daily contexts and extra commonly of their lifestyles narratives.
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He is a typical example of an individual who consumes music mostly through digital technologies to access an important amount of content – which I refer to as digital-core mode of consumption – and keeps interacting with his favorite artists or albums on vinyl discs – which relate to physical-peripheral modes of consumption (see Nowak, 2014b). Vinyl discs then enable him to develop a quality-oriented mode of consumption with these albums, as he sits down at home and listens to music as an activity.
He constantly seeks albums to complete it. But regarding the investment required, he only owns albums that he loves on vinyl discs. His other modes of consumption also draw on technologies like digital files, radio stations, and CDs. He is a typical example of an individual who consumes music mostly through digital technologies to access an important amount of content – which I refer to as digital-core mode of consumption – and keeps interacting with his favorite artists or albums on vinyl discs – which relate to physical-peripheral modes of consumption (see Nowak, 2014b).
Although he no longer consumes music a lot, he wants to keep all the content he has downloaded: Raphaël: Rodney: Sarah: Rodney: (Rodney, Do you keep everything you download? Yes. In case one day I want to use it. You’re a hoarder; that’s alright, I do it too. We’re digital hoarders! 28, accountant and Sarah, 30, technical writer, June 2014) The idea of ‘hoarding’ mentioned by Sarah to describe Rodney’s practices is interesting because it questions his relationship with music and the reasons why he keeps files that he never listens to.