As streaming services solidify their position as the dominant way that people listen to music, a common question swirling around — from investors and users both — has been whether subscription prices will go up. Over the past decade, Spotify has helped set a U.S. market standard of $9.99 per …
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Around 2013, University of Oslo professor Kyle Devine was reading a lot about junk. He’d grown fascinated with a subset of media studies that grappled with the growing problem of e-waste — old cellphones, computers, printers, etc. — and wondered if the problem was also plaguing ostensibly intangible things like …
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What do you know about Spotify, the Swedish music company? Five researchers who have spent the last several years investigating the inner workings of the global platform would argue that it is neither particularly Swedish nor truly a music company: They posit that Spotify is a shape-shifting tech business, serving …
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I n 2012 it was indisputably Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe.” In 2002, Nelly’s “Hot in Herre,” tailed by Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s “Crazy In Love” in 2003. Back in 1992, it was Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back”; the Police’s “Every Breath You Take” for 1983, and so on. Summer’s …
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