different research and theoretical approaches have been adopted in the study of the space of music production. the space of production and consumption of culture in iran as a country in transition is diverse and heterogeneous. such a diversity and heterogeneity in itself causes problems for this space. the problem of this space, which in this research work has been defined as a small social spa...

This paper studies two types of social influence in an online music community: observational learning influence based on aggregate consumption data, and social network influence based on music consumption by friends in social proximity. The analysis uses a variety of empirical methods, applied to highly granular user listening and “favoriting” behavior on the largest music blog aggregator site....

I nternet access, mobile devices, social networks, and automated multimedia technologies enable sophisticated information analysis and access. They have radically changed how people find entertainment, discover new interests, and generally express themselves online—seemingly without any physical or social barriers. Furthermore, thanks to the increasing affordability of sensing, storage, and sha...

In order to better understand the psychosocial factors involved in consumption to online music, we examine the role that two types of social networks—advising network and emotional network—play in individual consumption to digital music, especially the consumption to online music in China. Using survey data from 154 college students in 3 universities, we find that the person who is more depende...

OBJECTIVES Music can provide ergogenic, psychological, and psychophysical benefits during physical activity, especially when movements are performed synchronously with music. The present study developed the train of research on synchronous music and extended it to elite athletes. DESIGN Repeated-measures laboratory experiment. METHOD Elite triathletes (n=11) ran in time to self-selected mot...

O social media such as blogs are transforming how consumers make consumption decisions, and the music industry is at the forefront of this revolution. Based on data from a leading music blog aggregator, we analyze the relationship between music blogging and full-track sampling, drawing on theories of online social interaction. Our results suggest that intensity of music sampling is positively a...

aim and background:   after cesarean section surgery, routine pharmacologic methods of methods and materials:   a total of 80 patients, american society of anesthesiologists (asa) findings:   pain score and postoperative cumulative opioid consumption were significantly lower   p < 0.05), while there were no group differences in terms of   p > 0.05). conclusions:   postoperative use of patient-s...

Downloading unauthorized music file, being framed as a problem of crime, is deemed unethical, but the peer-to-peer systems have boosted its popularity and have become the killer application for the music industry. Two factors, cost savings from CD purchase and the low moral reasoning ability of Internet users, have been frequently attributed as rationales for this behavior. Music download, howe...