Overview of Music Research using Web Data

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Overview

Questions

  • What research using web data is taking place in music studies?
  • Where is research on music and the internet published?

Objectives

  • Examine the methods and ethics of different approaches to web data in music studies
  • Reflect on how concept of techno-optimism and field of critical data studies inform music research using internet data

Introduction

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Exercise: Music Research Using Web Data

Write one possible benefit and one potential drawback of using web data in music research.

Some potential benefits: * Access to a wide range of people’s responses to music * Quickly gain research data * Minimal cost to data collection * Increase statistical power of findings * May discover patterns in big data that could not be seen otherwise

Some potential drawbacks: * Not representative dataset * May not be aware who exactly we are studying * Ethical issues around informed consent * Risk of losing context for data * May be difficult to interpret large data sets

Output

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Key Points

  • There is a lot of published research using web data about music with a variety of established methods
  • Music and internet scholarship is interdisciplinary and can take many different forms, with a range of potential benefits and challenges
  • Researchers should be wary of the context of techno-optimism and consider work in critical data studies