Musically Meaningful or Just Noise? An Analysis of On-line Artist Networks
Musically Meaningful or Just Noise? An Analysis of On-line Artist Networks
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10.1007/978-3-642-02518-1_7
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2009-06
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Kurt Jacobson;M. Sandler
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作者：
Kurt Jacobson;M. Sandler
对Myspace社交网络的一个样本进行了研究。运用复杂网络理论的方法，我们实证地证明了Myspace艺术家网络的结构与音乐流派的概念有关。一个修正的分类系数计算表明，艺术家优先与其他相同流派的艺术家形成网络联系。我们还表明，艺术家和流派标签关联之间的测地线距离有一个明显的趋势--即具有相同流派关联的艺术家在网络中往往更接近。这些发现促使人们使用在线社交网络作为音乐学和音乐信息检索的数据资源。
A sample of the Myspace social network is examined. Using methods from complex network theory, we show empirically that the structure of the Myspace artist network is related to the concept of musical genre. A modified assortativity coefficient calculation shows that artists preferentially form network connections with other artists of the same genre. We also show there is a clear trend relating the geodesic distance between artists and genre label associations - that is artists with the same genre associations tend to be closer in the network. These findings motivate the use of on-line social networks as data resources for musicology and music information retrieval.