Dear colleagues, Here is a link to a newly-published open-access article, which provides a history of the platformisation of music in China and explores what this history might tell us about platformisation in the Chinese context:
From P2P to the cloud: music, platformization, and infrastructural change in China<https://url6649.tandfonline.com/ls/click?upn=u001.Z4WTLvhKhuNdT-2BZ6FY7pIE1qPnuAh-2BFdltgJIae950BfKiA8F5Txait-2BTEJPg7foDo1cE6UVGXaYnwUpA3D5abcHu1lHNiPCKl9j7JSQUZM-3DEmmB_clCaPKLhlBByH2EoPYQeUYLFuOsbV60JvgQNYzxQ9mvIdjl-2BUKBvfPi4-2FkJPKjwIEIGkuHnObyZZIrONbh2njSgyGaaXRK2zqJqzpQe1p-2BNHRjrof-2F4RIF8w-2F8kelIsqJTmGhLDxeTVniiX8zl8b-2Br-2BmTsEA-2FW50H0O1Tg-2FNgQZ2eevxHRiqRiWcvaiwRU8OJK2E9rg5tmQNYBQMqDB51ckKnfPQ7Z-2FakD5SpLp6-2BbSjgPenWNfJT6y-2B2P473bjNtyTWQYtrOgcvwU0pH0dWXeMium8fqLabY9NA1oaK8YQ-3D> We hope that you, your colleagues and/or your students might find it interesting and helpful.
Zhongwei (Mabu) Li and David Hesmondhalgh, both of the University of Leeds (UK) David Hesmondhalgh<https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/staff/297/professor-david-hesmondhalgh> (he/him) Professor of Media, Music and Culture, University of Leeds Principal Investigator, MUSICSTREAM: Music Culture in the Age of Streaming, funded by European Research Council, 2021 to 2026: https://musicstreamproject.com/ Recent open access publications include Digital platforms and infrastructure in the realm of culture<https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6422> (co-authored with Raquel Campos Valverde, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye and Zhongwei Li, May 2023) The changing shape of the Indian recorded music industry in the age of platformisation<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09584935.2023.2206998> (co-authored with Aditya Lal and Charles Umney, May 2023) Black, Brown and Asian cultural workers, creativity and activism<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261231163952>: The ambivalence of digital self-branding practices (co-authored with Francesca Sobande and Anamik Saha, April 2023) The Impact of Algorithmically Driven Recommendation Systems on Music Production and Consumption<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4365916>, (25,000 word literature review, co-authored with Raquel Campos Valverde, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye and Zhongwei Li, February 2023)