<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes, I think you are right. Both. Streaming services enable people to listen to music from remote corners of the world.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But they also encourage all people to hear the same stuff. For example platforms like Spotify produce global "top 50" charts. People listen to popular songs in the charts, and a song is listed in the charts if people listen to it. Some positive feedback loops can be found here which lead to bubbles - complexity theory :-)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Without good old radio stations we would certainly have less diversity and variety. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: ⛧ glen <gepropella@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 8/22/21 16:30 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [F </div><div><br></div></div>It does both, perhaps counterintuitively. I'd argue it facilitates traffic between demes/cliques, but inhibits the content of demes/cliques.<br><br><br>On August 22, 2021 6:51:02 AM PDT, Jochen Fromm <jofr@cas-group.net> wrote:<br>>In the last virtual FRIAM meeting Jonathan Zingale mentioned that streaming services confine our access to music, because they mainly offer mainstream music.IMHO they also broaden our access to music: as a European I can listen to music from all around the world. I have for example German, Italian, Australian, British, American and Spanish playlists on Spotify. This weak I have listened for instance to a Spanish songhttps://open.spotify.com/track/1MdsletWuIR9ItEnitWRwp?si=yZPJfu01R_6RAmw9ang8mQDo you feel streaming services restrict our access to music or do they extend it? :-/-J.<br>-- <br>glen ⛧<br><br>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br>Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam<br>un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com<br>FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/<br>archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/<br></body></html>