Dougal Shakespeare | Postgraduate

Former Member
The State, Political Norms and Political Conflicts
Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, D-10117 Berlin
Email: dougal.shakespeare  ( at )  cmb.hu-berlin.de Tel: +49(0) 30 / 20 93 70700

Position : PhD | Disciplines : Computer science |

Biography

I am a PhD student in the Computational Social Science Team lead by Camille Roth, at Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin), formally based at the EHESS in Paris. 

My research explores the varied means in which users interface with platforms that offer multiple means of exploring and exploiting content. In particular, I focus on the case of music streaming platforms, exploring low and high level behavioural differences that correspond to different dimensions of platform usage (e.g. personal playlists vs algorithmic recommendation).

Exploring Multi-affordance Dynamics on Music Streaming Platforms

Through a large scale data driven analysis, my research explores how users of the French based music streaming platform, Deezer adopt different platform affordances such as personal playlists or rather algorithmic or editorial playlist to both explore and exploit music on-platform. More specifically, we focus on exploring how low level behavioural dynamics (e.g. activity, redundancy) and then later, concentration dynamics (both semantic and item centric) correspond to different affordance adoption strategies deployed by users’ on-platform.

Research is conducted within the ANR-funded project, RECORDS.

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