![]() ![]() ![]() Music is enmeshed in identity and serves as a sign of taste, culture, and whether one is in or outside of another’s social group. When we tell people what kind of music we listen to, we are revealing more than just our preference between variations of rhythms, harmonies, or melodies. Remember that feeling you had as a teenager (or still have) when leaving a concert with your favorite band’s t-shirt? The name and logo emblazoned on the front and the list of tour dates on the back were proof that you weren’t just someone purporting to listen to the band-you attended their show. Spotify Wrapped goes beyond a simple ranking of most-listened-to songs and immerses the consumer in an interactive story about who they are. ![]() Even the name Wrapped serves as a prime target for triggers we encounter in conversations and our everyday life at this time of year: wrapping gifts, wrapping up the end of the year…īut what makes Spotify Wrapped a prominent element in December social media feeds is its exploitation of musical taste as a social identifier. It has also gained in practical value thanks to new functionalities like the “Discover” option, expanding how users interact with their favorite content to find out about similar artists. All its features and data points can be shared by users across most platforms, including TikTok which was added to its roster this year. Spotify Wrapped is popular for some obvious reasons. The Swedish streaming service has won praise for the irresistible elegance of Wrapped’s graphic design but has also caught flack for having produced what others term (shockingly!) a marketing ploy meant to garner more users across social media platforms. Last year’s launch appears to have boosted its Q4 app downloads by 21%. Since 2015, Spotify has refined its own recap of users’ behavior, Spotify Wrapped, into a viral phenomenon, leading to huge increases in revenue. And tech companies deliver retrospectives derived from harvested user data to tell each of us more about, well, ourselves. Please register with your University of Illinois email account by 11:59pm CT on April 27, and we will send an email with the Zoom meeting invitation on the morning of the event.It’s that time of the year again-yes, the end of it-when we are supposed to look back at the past 12 months and act like it all made sense. It is open to current University of Illinois affiliates (students, faculty, and staff). Come learn how your curated vibe playlists can serve as a template for how to synthesize your sources. This presentation will give concrete strategies to synthesize multiple sources within your researched argument paper. We will use the concept of playlist curation to understand source synthesis, which is an integral part of ensuring primary and secondary sources are “vibing” in our papers. ![]() When you go to make a playlist, it is always important it passes the “vibe check.” Do the songs work together? How do the songs’ order and appearance in the playlist work together? Do they relate to the vibe you’re going for? Each of us has the one playlist that perfectly matches our intended vibe - and when we write academic papers, our sources can be “vibe checked,” too. Views 72 Originating Calendar Writers Workshop General Events ![]()
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