How Do Authenticity Meanings Evolve? a Longitudinal Analysis of Music Album Reviews
ASSOCIATION FOR CONSUMER RESEARCH Labovitz School of Business & Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth, 11 E. Superior Street, Suite 210, Duluth, MN 55802 How Do Authenticity Meanings Evolve? a Longitudinal Analysis of Music Album Reviews Matteo Corciolani, University of Pisa, Italy Kent Grayson, Northwestern University, USA Ashlee Humphreys, Northwestern University, USA Previous research has focused on individual consumer evaluations and types of authenticity. We take an institutional perspective to explore field-level factors by analyzing the text of 4,924 album reviews. We find that authenticity criteria are a function of the institutional resources critics have available for judgment as a field matures. [to cite]: Matteo Corciolani, Kent Grayson, and Ashlee Humphreys (2017) ,"How Do Authenticity Meanings Evolve? a Longitudinal Analysis of Music Album Reviews", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 45, eds. Ayelet Gneezy, Vladas Griskevicius, and Patti Williams, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 53-56. [url]: http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/1024557/volumes/v45/NA-45 [copyright notice]: This work is copyrighted by The Association for Consumer Research. For permission to copy or use this work in whole or in part, please contact the Copyright Clearance Center at http://www.copyright.com/. Advances in Consumer Research (Volume 45) / 53 Method Conclusion We analyze thousands of songs, testing how lyrical differen- In conclusion, analysis of thousands of song suggests that dif- tiation (i.e., how different a song’s lyrics are from others within its ferentiation plays an important role in cultural success. More gener- genre) shapes popularity. ally, this work demonstrates how natural language processing can be First, we collected song data.
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