Episode Notes

What music do you like? How do you know? And how does your favorite music streaming app know – or not? Questions of music taste and how the people creating music recommender systems define it motivate Nick Seaver’s book, Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation. On today’s show, I’m joined by Nick to discuss his book, his own taste in music, and what he learned as he talked, worked, and hung out with the people behind the algorithms. Nick Seaver, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, where he is also the director of the program in Science, Technology, and Society.