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Kaitlyn Todd

Kaitlyn (Kay) Todd is completing her MA in English at McGill University. Her research uses digital humanities strategies to analyze contemporary social issues. icon

Are Spotify’s Vibes the End of Segregated Listening? (That’s Not What the Data Says.)

By Tom McEnaney & Kaitlyn Todd

What kind of world does Spotify—through its algorithmic sorting of millions of users’ desires, through our aggregated listening—produce for us to hear?

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