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Blog 4 – Analysis of Terrestrial Radio and Online Music Radio (Sara Hancock)

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     Within Andrew Bottomley’s fifth chapter entitled, “Hang the DJ? Music Radio and Sound Curation in the Algorithmic Ages” in his book Sound Streams, the author compares the elements present within the online music radio platform, Pandora and terrestrial radio stations. To expand, Bottomley maintains that in both radio formats, listeners are provided with limited musical choice and control over stations. Pandora and terrestrial platforms are unable to skip, replay, or play a song more frequently, demonstrating the reduced control given to radio medium listeners. Further, both medium forms afforded listeners a reduced ability to provide feedback and alter the music presented; for Pandora users could give songs a “thumbs up” or a “thumbs down,” in addition to a third option of telling the system that “I’m tired of this track” to hear the song more, less, or not for a while, respectively; in relation to terrestrial radio, listeners may change the station If they dislike th...
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Blog Post #2 - Marina Florencio

The movie Pontypool tells the story of a virus that is spread through language – more specifically, the virus is transmitted when one says English words that have been contaminated. The importance of this movie to CS400 is its depiction of language as a virus. Once someone gets infected by the virus, they repeat the (infected) word many times. Think about it, have you ever said a word so many times that the word lost its meaning? In Pontypool, that is what happens to people once infected – words lose their meanings and people start repeating these words over and over again, damaging their meaning more each time.    Harold Innis argues about mediums of communication, particularly, time bias versus space bias of media forms. Here, one may say that the vector of infection of the language virus in Pontypool is an example of space bias. That is because language/communication can be easily transported through time and space. In this movie, the main characters interact with people th...
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Blog Post 4 - Cassidy Bradshaw

  After completing my assigned readings for my presentation during week 9, I found myself thinking a lot about what David Arditti calls “unending consumption”. Something we have discussed throughout the term is our listening habits as consumers. As listeners, we expect new content, and new digital technologies to listen to this content. For example, streaming platforms. Streaming platforms give us constant access to music whenever and wherever we want. I would argue that it is this “seemingly free” and never ending feeling that keeps listeners paying their monthly subscription fees for streaming platforms.  This brings me to what David Arditti calls unending consumption. Arditti argues that with the newest development in sound technologies, this being streaming platforms, this aspect of unending consumption has begun. As listeners, we will never stop wanting new musical content, and the efficiency streaming platforms provide plays up this feeling. We expect our favourite artis...
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