Fake Streams, Listening Bots, and Click Farms: Counterfeiting Attention in the Streaming Music Economy

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Research Article| July 01 2020 Fake Streams, Listening Bots, and Click Farms: Counterfeiting Attention in the Streaming Music Economy Eric Drott Eric Drott Eric Drott is associate professor of music theory at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968-1981 (University of California Press, 2011). Current projects include The Oxford Handbook of Protest Music, coedited with Noriko Manabe, and a book on music streaming platforms. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2020) 38 (2): 153–175. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.38.2.0153 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eric Drott; Fake Streams, Listening Bots, and Click Farms: Counterfeiting Attention in the Streaming Music Economy. American Music 1 January 2020; 38 (2): 153–175. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.38.2.0153 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressAmerican Music Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2020 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2020 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

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