清晨朗读1160：Big Mood Machine（微信文章未删减版）

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今天的练习内容来自 The Baffler，标题为 The Big Mood Machine，内容的主题是在线听音乐的服务是如何出售我们的信息。

这种行为是不是合理呢？算不算侵犯隐私？

What do you think?

Have fun!

John

p.s. 记得每天都来清晨朗读会打卡哦～

朗读内容

Big Mood Machine

Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit

By Liz Pelly

Music is emotional, and so our listening often signals something deeply personal and private. Today, this means music streaming platforms are in a unique position within the greater platform economy: they have troves of data related to our emotional states, moods, and feelings. It’s a matter of unprecedented access to our interior lives, which is buffered by the flimsy illusion of privacy. When a user chooses, for example, a “private listening” session on Spotify, the effect is to make them feel that it’s a one-way relation between person and machine. Of course, that personalization process is Spotify’s way of selling users on its product. But, as it turns out, in a move that should not surprise anyone at this point, Spotify has been selling access to that listening data to multinational corporations.

Where other platforms might need to invest more to piece together emotional user profiles, Spotify streamlines the process by providing boxes that users click on to indicate their moods: Happy Hits, Mood Booster, Rage Beats, Life Sucks. All of these are examples of what can now be found on Spotify’s Browse page under the “mood” category, which currently contains eighty-five playlists. If you need a lift in the morning, there’s Wake Up Happy, A Perfect Day, or Ready for the Day. If you’re feeling down, there’s Feeling Down, Sad Vibe, Down in the Dumps, Drifting Apart, Sad Beats, Sad Indie, and Devastating. If you’re grieving, there’s even Coping with Loss, with the tagline: “When someone you love becomes a memory, find solace in these songs.”

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https://thebaffler.com/downstream/big-mood-machine-pelly

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