Indicators of Country Similarity in Terms of Music Taste, Cultural, and Socio-economic Factors
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia
Original Kurzfassung:
Considering the cultural background of users is
known to improve recommender systems for multimedia items.
In this work, we focus on music and analyze user demographics
and music listening events in a large corpus (120,000 users, 109
events) from Last.fm to investigate whether similarity between
countries in terms of cultural and socio-economic factors is
reflected in music taste. To this end, we propose a tag-based
model to describe the music taste of a country and correlate
the resulting music profiles to Hofstede?s cultural dimensions
and the Quality of Government data. Spearman?s rank-order
correlation and Quadratic Assignment Procedure indeed indicate
statistically significant weak to medium correlations of music
taste and several cultural and socio-economic factors. The results
will help elaborating culture-aware models of music listeners and
in turn likely yield improved music recommender systems.
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