Study on music consumption via smartphone
Christina Wippel from the Department of Music Sociology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) has conducted empirical research into how young people use smartphones. She confirms, but also refutes some prejudices.
The publication deals with the changing use of music by young people, made possible by the development and market penetration of Internet-enabled cell phones.
Among other things, Christina Wippel succeeds in refuting the often-reproduced contemporary diagnosis that young people are no longer interested in owning music and only follow short-term consumer impulses anyway, writes the mdw. She also describes how the smartphone is used and understood by young people as a music storage device and much more.
The most depressing realization from the point of view of music creators and music educators is that the idea of spending money on recorded music is only remembered as a quirk of the parents' generation, if at all.
The publication (volume 13 of the extempore series, edited by Alfred Smudits) is available at the Institute for the Sociology of Music (musiksoziologie@mdw.ac.at) can be ordered. It costs 8 euros.
