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Wired News: Social discrimination by iTunes playlist
Topic: Technology 9:52 am EST, Nov 16, 2003

] Playlistism, Aubrey explained, is discrimination based
] not on race, sex or religion, but on someone's terrible
] taste in music, as revealed by their iTunes music
] library.
]
] Aubrey said an iTunes music library tells a lot more
] about people than the clothes they wear or the books they
] carry.
]
] Aubrey said Wesleyan students are enjoying a new parlor
] game -- going through music libraries trying to guess
] what their owners are like. At any one time, 30 or 40
] iTunes libraries are available on the campus network,
] which is shared by about 2,000 students.
]
] Students are starting to realize they must manage their music
] collections, or at least prune them, to maintain their image,
Aubrey
] said. He confessed to deleting a lot of stuff himself.

Wired News: Social discrimination by iTunes playlist



 
 
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