Ouvintes e relações de escuta musical no espaço digital do Spotify

Abstract

This work aims to understand listeners' music listening relationships on Spotify space, in order to analyze its constitution and functioning as a digital space for music listening, to explore the listeners' connections with the streaming service, to understand the organization and transformation of listening practices, and to reveal the relationships established by listeners with their own listening within this space. The dissertation presents a series of quantitative and qualitative analyses, derived from responses to a questionnaire prepared during the research and administered to a group of 111 Spotify users. The study incorporates critical theoretical approaches from several classic authors, with notable reference to Theodor W. Adorno (1985, 2017, 2020) and Walter Benjamin (2012), and contemporary authors, such as Robert Prey (2015, 2020) and Jack Webster (2022), regarding debates on music listening, technology and society. The research findings highlight the emergence of diverse listening relationships that shape listening practices, habits, conceptions, and experiences on Spotify. Transformations are detected in the musical preferences, listening modes, temporality and spatiality of listeners' musical listening after using the streaming service. Additionally, gender, race, and generational factors emerge as influential elements in the constitution of listening practices within an algorithmic environment.