Breaking through the Recommendation Echo Chamber

Jean-Robert Bisaillon, co-director of LATICCE for recorded music research, publishes the findings and preliminary report resulting from research work supported by a MITACS grant and funding from the Joint Strategy of the Franco-Quebec mission on the discoverability of French-speaking cultural content and entitled: 

Breaking through the echo chamber of recommendation to stimulate the discoverability and export of sound recordings: Analysis of the relationship between enriched metadata and global streaming listening. 

The report, written in an accessible style, intended mainly for French and Quebec artists and labels, addresses the relevance of promoting the documentation held by artistic teams to help subscribers of online music services to better find what they want to listen to and vary the monotony of the artists recommended to them. 

Even if the conclusions of the report are not particularly definitive, they offer food for thought which will be useful in a context where everything is changing rapidly, suggesting a possible fight for greater regulation of music platforms which have become real gatekeepers.