Summary

The last decade has seen the emergence and global growth of streaming platforms in the music industry, such as Spotify and Deezer. These platforms initially transformed the cultural consumption of music, as well as the film industry. This way, Algo_Rhythms is the result of an investigation developed by InternetLab, with support of the Knowledge Equity Fund from Wikimedia Foundation, to identify possible biases and discriminations that can be reinforced or produced in these contexts, as well as to reflect on the impacts of the globalization of these platforms and, consequently, of the normalization of uses and consumption of culture mediated by technologies.

In this project, our goal is to promote a dialogue about the relation of culture, algorithmic recommendations and the operationalization of structural inequalities in music platforms. Thus, from an intersectional perspective, we analyzed the data collected on these platforms to understand how the dimensions of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality and territory cross the automated recommendation systems, the production of tastes and, consequently, the consumption and production of music.