The Humans and Algorithms of Music Recommendation: A Review of Computing Taste (2022)

Key Points

• The aim is to understand the role of technologists in designing music recommendation algorithms and their relationship with taste and computation.
• Anthropological study of technologists designing algorithmic music recommendation systems
• Analysis of their perspectives on music and taste
• Examination of the design approaches used in technology
• Highlights the importance of human perspectives in technology design
• Finds that algorithms should be viewed as sociotechnical systems
• Demonstrates the complexity of music tastes in relation to computational strategies