Sharing, Communication, and Music Listening: A Diary Study of Technology Use by Pre-teens and Adolescents

摘要

Music-listening on personal devices is arguably the most wide-spread form of human-computer interaction. Reasons for this include that small, widely-available, high-capacity devices offer users high-quality, choice, and mobility. However, they also offer what could be called, alternatively, either privacy or isolation. To understand more about the space of people listening to music and their sociality, we performed a diary study in the United States of 19 participants aged 9–15 over a two-week period. Despite their interest in communicating with their friends and in listening to music, the participants rarely listened to music with their friends, and they rarely recommended music to- or received music recommendations from their friends.