Tom McEnaney

Tom McEnaney is associate professor of comparative literature and Spanish & Portuguese at UC Berkeley. He is the author of various articles about sound, literature, and technology in Latin America and the United States, as well as the book Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas.


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Writing on Public Books

Are Spotify’s Vibes the End of Segregated Listening? (That’s Not What the Data Says.)

What kind of world does Spotify—through its algorithmic sorting of millions of users’ desires, through our aggregated listening—produce for us to hear?