Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Paris, France, ACM Press p.951-960
Revisiting Social Practices Surrounding Music
ABSTRACT:
Music shapes our social lives. While previous research has provided a foundational understanding of the social af-fordances surrounding people’s interactions with music, there is a need to update this understanding in light of re-cent key developments in our digital technological land-scape. This paper describes a qualitative study of people’s social activities and practices around music in households. It extends previous research by revealing the impact key technologies have on how, where, when, and with who people’s interactions surrounding music occur. It also re-veals people’s creative attempts to design their musical ex-periences with others through reconfiguring and connecting to various digital technologies and digital platforms in order to pursue more opportunities for communicating, sharing, bonding, and celebrating lives with others. [link]


