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"I'll press play, but I won't listen": profile work in a music-focused social network service

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Suvi Silfverberg,

Lassi A. Liikkanen,

Airi LampinenAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '11: Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work

Pages 207 - 216

https://doi.org/10.1145/1958824.1958855

Published: 19 March 2011 Publication History

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We offer the concept of profile work to illustrate the effort people invest in their public profiles in social network services (SNSs). In our explorative study, we investigated profile work in Last.fm, an SNS that automatically publishes music listening information. We found that, instead of simply not publishing things they might rather keep private, users tend to change their music listening behavior in order to control their self-presentation. Four dimensions of profile work were identified, including detailed mechanisms to regulate one's profile. We suggest ways to support users' profile work in the context of automated sharing of behavior information.

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