Hi Howard and all,
Glad to find this group!
I'm finishing up a paper for the Audio Engineering Society that
analyzes the "loudness war" in terms of game theory and cooperation
theory. Basically, the loudness war involves the fact that record
companies are applying more and more dynamic range compression to CDs
to try to make each one louder than all the others. As a result, CDs
now have less dynamic range than a 1909 Edison cylinder (!), and
people end up tuning out because of listening fatigue and lack of
dynamics and excitement. (This has nothing to do with the final
playback volume - listeners have their own volume controls and can
turn it up as loud as they want - it just relates to producers
squashing the dynamics.)
So the idea is that each company tries to make their CDs the loudest,
but since everyone is doing that, they end up with no real advantage,
and it may be adversely affecting the overall industry - a typical
social dilemma. Among other things, I'm presenting some studies
showing that we may have gone to loudness war based on a lie: while
listeners do prefer the louder of two otherwise identical recordings,
loudness appears to have an insignificant effect when choosing
between two different songs. Also, there appears to be no significant
correlation between loudness and sales rankings. It looks like people
may buy music primarily because they like it, not because it's louder
than other music.
I'm looking for a real-world example of people playing the wrong game
based on false assumptions - for example, playing a
non-(prisoner's)-dilemma as if it were a dilemma, or playing a
non-zero-sum game as if it were zero-sum. Any ideas?
Earl
http://www.sfxmachine.com
Thanks for nudging us awake again, Robert. I know that several
people have joined in recent weeks. I am still interested in the
subject and I use http://cooperationcommons.com -- especially the
summaries -- all the time.
Howard Rheingold [email protected] http://twitter.com/hrheingold
http://www.rheingold.com http://www.smartmobs.com
http://vlog.rheingold.com
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On Sep 1, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Robert Link wrote:
CoCos,
We've been quiet quite a while. What are folks up to? I have added a
handful of new names to the list today, and hope they will each
introduce themselves to the group. Likewise, it would be great to hear
from each and everyone one of you. Does CoCo still represent a resource
to you? How best can we reactivate you? You, personally, as an
individual?
As for me, I've taken the California Bar a 3rd time since my last post,
and am currently working on setting up a drupal site for a local
volunteer board. This put me on the #drupal-support channel in freenode,
where I spotted one of our own.
Peace,
rl
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