Investigating Crowd Creativity in Online Music Communities
Abstract
Crowd creativity is typically associated with peer-production communities focusing on artistic products like animations, video games, and music, but less frequently to Open Source Software (OSS), despite the fact that also developers must be creative to come up with new solutions to their technical challenges. In this paper, we conduct a study to further the understanding of which factors from prior work in both OSS and art communities are predictive of successful collaboration - defined as reuse of previous songs - in three different songwriting communities, namely Songtree, Splice, and ccMixter. The main findings from this study confirm that the success of collaborations is associated with high community status of recognizable authors and low degree of derivativity of songs.
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@article{arxiv.1809.06172,
title = {Investigating Crowd Creativity in Online Music Communities},
author = {Fabio Calefato and Giuseppe Iaffaldano and Filippo Lanubile and Federico Maiorano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.06172},
year = {2021}
}
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Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 2, No. CSCW, Article 27, Publication date: November 2018