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Spotify Teardown (eBook, ePUB)

An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of audio files into streamed experience.Spotify provides a streaming service that has been welcomed as disrupting the world of music. Yet such disruption always comes at a price. Spotify Teardown contests the tired claim that digital culture thrives on disruption. Borrowing the notion of "teardown” from reverse-engineering processes, in this book a team of five researchers have playfully disassembled Spotify's product and the way it is commonly understood.Spotify has been hailed as the solution to illicit downloading, but it began as a partly illicit enterprise that grew out of the Swedish file-sharing community. Spotify was originally praised as an innovative digital platform but increasingly resembles a media company in need of regulation, raising questions about the ways in which such cultural content as songs, books, and films are now typically made available online.Spotify Teardown combines interviews, participant observations, and other analyses of Spotify's "front end” with experimental, covert investigations of its "back end.” The authors engaged in a series of interventions, which include establishing a record label for research purposes, intercepting network traffic with packet sniffers, and web-scraping corporate materials. The authors' innovative digital methods earned them a stern letter from Spotify accusing them of violating its terms of use; the company later threatened their research funding. Thus, the book itself became an intervention into the ethics and legal frameworks of corporate behavior.

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Spiele-Verschiebungen, Watch Dogs: Legion Fazit und Ghostrunner Eindrücke | Game Talk

In der heutigen Raytracing-Ausgabe des Game Talks gibt euch Gregor sein Fazit zu UBISOFT'S WATCH DOGS: LEGION, dass er durchgespielt hat. Dennis erzählt von seinen Eindrücken des frisch erschienenen Zerstörungs-Sandkasten TEARDOWN von Entwickler TUXEDO LABS und Valentin berichtet von den ersten Stunden mit dem Wallrunning-Plattformer GHOSTRUNNER das im Cyberpunk-Setting angesiedelt ist. Apropos Cyberpunkt: Natürlich reden die drei auch über die möglichen Gründe der Verschiebung des meist erwarteten Spiels 2020 CYBERPUNK 2077 von Entwickler CD PROJEKT RED und der damit zusammenhängenden Crunch-Problematik. Daraus wird ein genereller Diskurs über die Spiele-Entwicklung in Pandemie-Zeiten. Denn nicht nur das ambitionierte RPG verschiebt sich, sondern auch FAR CRY 6 und TOM CLANCY’S RAINBOW SIX: QUARANTINE. Außerdem wird noch über die neuste Episode der THE DARK PICTURES-Reihe der UNTIL DAWN-Entwickler THE DARK PICTURES: LITTLE HOPE gesprochen.

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TikTok Boom

"A careful, detailed teardown of the people, culture and technology behind the world's most dynamic social network, TikTok. It is rare for a business analysis to read like a thriller - this one does." - Azeem Azhar, Founder, Exponential ViewTikTok is the fastest growing app in the world, and the first to challenge Silicon Valley's dominance of social media. Donald Trump claimed it was a threat to US security and tried to outlaw it. India has banned TikTok.Do the concerns about TikTok's Chinese ownership justify TikTok's treatment in the West? How has it taken over the world in just a few years, and what does its success mean for the future of technology? In TikTok Boom, journalist and author of YouTubers, Chris Stokel-Walker has interviewed hundreds of people connected to the short-form video app. He also goes behind the scenes at its ambitious Chinese owner, ByteDance, which is on its way to becoming Beijing's Google.TikTok Boom presents a nuanced, informed and incisive read on the characters and strategies behind the world's new tech order.Praise for TikTok Boom:"TikTok is perhaps the fastest growing and most addictive social media tool yet created. This book is vital to understanding how it works and the impact it's having." - Damian Collins, former chairman of the House of CommonsDigital, Culture, Media and Sport Select CommitteeIn TikTok Boom, Stokel-Walker matches the unparalleled breadth and scale of growth of the Chinese platform with remarkable depth and spectacular wisdom. Blending journalistic narrative with state-of-the-art academic research, no other author comes close to weaving this epic tale of the rise of China's first global platform threatening Silicon's Valley hegemony while operating as inflection point around the rise of one globe two Internet systems. This is a must read for students, scholars, and policy makers. - David Craig, Clinical Professor, USC Annenberg"It's clear that Stokel-Walker's strength is that he's not just TikTok-literate, he's TikTok-fluent. He knows the product, the people, and the entire ecosystem inside and out, and it is this familiarity that makes his telling so compelling, because he knows how to make you feel like you, too, are an insider in this strange new world." - Rui Ma, founder, Tech Buzz China"This book charts the story of an app on the rise that's changing the world of tech, charting the future of culture, and creating a new world of work: the creator economy. Deeply researched and engaging, it breaks down some of the biggest questions for the future of work and culture."- Li Jin, Atelier Ventures

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