The Fickle Crowd: Selective Differentiation in Cultural Markets

AbstractThe digitization of music has changed how we consume, produce, and distribute music. In this paper, we explore the effects of digitization and streaming on the globalization of popular music. While some argue that digitization has led to more diverse cultural markets, others consider that the increasing accessibility to international music would result in a globalized market where a few artists garner all the attention. We tackle this debate by looking at how cross-country diversity in music charts has evolved over 4 years in 39 countries. We analyze two large-scale datasets from Spotify, the most popular streaming platform at the moment, and iTunes, one of the pioneers in digital music distribution. Our analysis reveals an upward trend in music consumption diversity that started in 2017 and spans across platforms. There are now significantly more songs, artists, and record labels populating the top charts than just a few years ago, making national charts more diverse from a global perspective. Furthermore, this process started at the peaks of countries’ charts, where diversity increased at a faster pace than at their bases. We characterize these changes as a process of Cultural Divergence, in which countries are increasingly distinct in terms of the music populating their music charts.

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An Experimental Study of Recommendation Algorithms for Tailored Health Communication

10.31235/osf.io/nu6tg ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

hyun Suk Kim ◽

Sijia Yang ◽

Minji Kim ◽

Brett Hemenway ◽

Lyle H Ungar ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Service ◽

Public Service Announcements ◽

Message Tailoring ◽

Quit Smoking ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Recommendation Algorithms ◽

Cultural Markets ◽

Tailored Communication ◽

Multiple Levels ◽

Simple Average

Recommendation algorithms are widely used in online cultural markets to provide personalized suggestions for products like books and movies. At the heart of the commercial success of recommendation algorithms is their ability to make an accurate prediction of a target person’s preferences for previously unseen items. Can these algorithms also be used to predict which health messages an individual will evaluate favorably, and thereby provide effective tailored communication to the person? Although there is evidence that message tailoring enhances persuasion, little research has examined the effectiveness of recommendation algorithms for tailored health interventions aimed at promoting behavior change. We developed a message tailoring algorithm to select smoking-related public service announcements (PSAs) for smokers, and experimentally test its effectiveness in predicting a target smoker’s evaluations of PSAs and encouraging smoking cessation. The tailoring algorithm was constructed using multiple levels of data on smokers’ PSA rating history, individual differences, content features of the PSAs, and other smokers’ PSA ratings. We conducted a longitudinal online experiment to examine its efficacy in comparison to two non-tailored methods: “best in show” (choosing messages most preferred by other smokers) and “off the shelf” (random selection from eligible ads). The results showed that the tailoring algorithm produced more accurate predictions of smokers’ message evaluations than the simple-average method used for the “best in show” approach. Smokers who viewed PSAs recommended by the tailoring algorithm were more likely than those receiving a random set to evaluate the PSAs favorably and quit smoking. There was no significant difference between the “best in show” and “off the shelf” methods in message assessment and quitting behavior.

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Promotion of cell adherence and spreading: a novel function of RAGE, the highly selective differentiation marker of human alveolar epithelial type I cells

Cell and Tissue Research ◽

10.1007/s00441-005-0069-0 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 323 (3) ◽

pp. 475-488 ◽

Cited By ~ 139

Author(s):

Nina Demling ◽

Carsten Ehrhardt ◽

Michael Kasper ◽

Michael Laue ◽

Lilla Knels ◽

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Keyword(s):

Type I ◽

Cell Adherence ◽

Alveolar Epithelial ◽

Type I Cells ◽

Differentiation Marker ◽

Selective Differentiation ◽

I Cells

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Prevalence of Salmonella Serovars in Chickens in Turkey

Journal of Food Protection ◽

10.4315/0362-028x-64.11.1832 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 64 (11) ◽

pp. 1832-1835 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

K. TAYFUN CARLI ◽

AYSEGUL EYIGOR ◽

VILDAN CANER

Keyword(s):

Salmonella Enteritidis ◽

Brilliant Green ◽

Detection Sensitivity ◽

Isolation Rate ◽

Department Of Agriculture ◽

Improvement Plan ◽

Agar Media ◽

Salmonella Serovars ◽

Selective Differentiation ◽

First Time

In this study, 151 (18.6%) of 814 ceca obtained during in-line processing of 28 broiler (Hybro G, Avian, Arbor acres, and Cobb breeds) and 5 layer (Ross, Tetra SL, Isa Brown, and Brown Nick breeds) flocks in Turkey were found to be contaminated with four different Salmonella serovars. Only Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Serovar Enteritidis (Salmonella Enteritidis) was recovered from layer birds, whereas Salmonella Enteritidis (81.5%), Salmonella Agona (7.6%), Salmonella Thompson (10.1%), and Salmonella Sarajane (0.8%) were isolated from broiler birds. Isolations of Salmonella Agona and Salmonella Thompson from poultry are reported for the first time in Turkey. The isolation of Salmonella Sarajane from chickens is the first report in the world. The standard method of National Poultry Improvement Plan, U.S. Department of Agriculture, was used to detect Salmonella from chicken cecal samples. Primary and delayed secondary enrichments (PE and DSE) were done in tetrathionate-Hajna broth (TTHB). Two different agar media, xylose lysine tergitol 4 (XLT4) and brilliant green with novobiocin (BGN) were used to observe, and compared for their isolation and selective differentiation of, Salmonella-suspected colonies. Isolated salmonellae were then biotyped and serotyped. Ninety-one and 151 salmonellae were isolated with XLT4 agar after PE and DSE, respectively. From the same samples, BGN agar was able to detect only 50 and 131 Salmonella after PE and DSE, respectively. The isolation rate with XLT4 was 11.2% (P < 0.01) with PE, and this rate increased to 18.6% after DSE. Also, the PE isolation rate (11.2%) with XLT4 agar was significantly higher (P < 0.01) than PE with BGN agar (6.1%). Salmonella was isolated from 39.3% (11 of 28) of the broiler flocks and from 60.0% (3 of 5) of the layers. The detection sensitivity of the isolation method was determined as 1 CFU g−1 experimentally. These data demonstrate the presence of Salmonella Enteritidis, Salmonella Thompson, Salmonella Agona, and Salmonella Sarajane in chicken flocks in Turkey.

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The Culture of Cultural Markets

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews ◽

10.1177/0094306112462559 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 41 (6) ◽

pp. 777-779

Author(s):

Shyon Baumann

Keyword(s):

Cultural Markets

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Cross-Cultural Markets and Consumer Behaviors: The Case of China and Turkey

Journal of Euromarketing ◽

10.9768/0018.03.189 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 189-197

Author(s):

Ming Ying Lisa Chu Weininger ◽

Michael A Weininger

Keyword(s):

Cross Cultural ◽

Consumer Behaviors ◽

Cultural Markets

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Experimental Shakespeare

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199687169.013.6 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Susan Bennett

Keyword(s):

Economic Impact ◽

Performance Practice ◽

English Language ◽

Performance Style ◽

Cultural Markets ◽

Original Practices

‘Experimental Shakespeare’ considers the various meanings of ‘experimental’ as it has been attributed to productions of the plays in the last fifty years. It looks at innovation in performance style as well as the criticism these stage practices have inspired. In addition, the chapter considers the emergence and popularity of a ‘global’ Shakespeare and how audiences engage non-English-language and postcolonial productions in diverse cultural markets. Finally, it looks at the idea of original practices productions in replica theatre buildings and considers what effects are produced by claims to an authentic Shakespearean performance practice. Each of these traditions of ‘experimental’ Shakespeare contributes to the ongoing cultural and economic impact of the playwright and his work.

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