Harkive 2020
Welcome to Harkive 2020. Thanks for visiting the website and for showing an interest in the project. This post should tell you everything you may need to know about the project.
What is Harkive?
Harkive is an annual online research project that gathers stories about How, Where and Why people listen to music across a single day. Since launching in 2013 the project has gathered around 10,000 stories, from people all over the world. This year Harkive takes place on Tuesday 21st July â Â Weâd love to hear your story.
The project is interested in how music plays its part in your day on 21st July. Which technologies, formats and services you use, the places you find yourselves in, how music accompanies you as you move through your day, and â of course â how music makes you feel.
How do I get involved?
Joining in with the project is easy. You can do so simply by adding the #harkive hashtag to your music-related posts on Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr. Alternatively, if you want to write something a little longer, you can email it to us, or send it via this online form. Stories are also accepted as posts on the Harkive Facebook wall.
To post here on Tumblr, simply add the #harkive hashtag to your post!
You can post as many entries as you like across the day, and you can write as much or as little as you like. Feel free to include photos, links and other digital media. There is more detailed information on how to tell your story here. You can also read some example posts that have been collected in previous years, from musicians, writers, technologists, promoters, and others.
Why does Harkive gather this information?
Harkive is part of ongoing research being undertaken by Craig Hamilton in the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research at Birmingham City University. His research explores the cultural, technological, economic and social factors surrounding popular music consumption in the digital age, and his particular interest is the role digital, data and internet technologies play in the ways we listen. You can find more detailed information about the research ethics of this work here.
MyHarkive â new for 2020.
For Harkive 2020 weâre also launching the MyHarkive web app. This is interactive page will enable those who have posted stories to Harkive in previous years to explore their older posts. A lot can happen in 8 years, so we hope you enjoy looking back at how you listened during earlier Harkive days!
Once youâve entered a username that creates a match in the Harkive database, you can then view the times of day you posted each year on the When you posted tab, or read your past stories on the What you said tab. Where available, links to your orginal posts â or media you shared (e.g. YouTube links, Spotify playlists) â are shown. These links will work as long as the original content is still online at that URL. The datatable view can also be re-organised by any of the columns, and you can search for particular words using the search box.
Need more information?
If you have any questions about Harkive, or the research surrounding it, please feel free to email [email protected] or say hello on Twitter (@harkive)
Join in!
Harkive is looking forward to once again hearing your stories this year. Please do consider joining in, and please do tell your friends, share this post, and generally spread the word.
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