The reflections of the transformations in digital technologies to production, consumption and sharing practices: assessment essay on social media and mobile music platforms

In the last century, the identification of voice seen as abstract or intangible, and the process of transferring through a physical transfer agent have shown significant progress with technological innovations made one after the other. Especially since the 1980s with digitalization of data; recording, transferring and storing the data via non-material media has been made possible. It is obvious that the concept called "digital transformation" has caused a paradigm change in both design and production processes as well as the access and circulation phases. The factors such as the increasingly shrinking and accelerating mobile devices, headphones lost in the ear, music played in different resolutions with the concern of Internet quota, "good" or "bad" classifications for a music product considering number of people listening it in social media has caused musical design to be structured by some boundaries, and changed the orchestras. In addition, due to rapidly changing standards; while producing a sound design, the importance of environment in which the "final product" to be listened has also been considered. As a result, manufacturers have begun to take digital formats, software and hardware standards more into account in order to convey their designs exactly as they desire to announce it. In music access, technologies such as cloud data and streaming have provided some economic convenience and have removed the need for raw materials for traditional music listening transporters / carriers. Along with the mobile music platforms, almost all musical archives have become accessible to everyone just by pushing one button; and also, almost all albums of the artists have been made accessable by a single membership. Not only production practices but also musical access has been changed, and production of independent music without using the computer screen has become almost impossible, and the saying "everybody can produce music" with small and "smart" new generation devices has been well received by the society. Along with digitization, copyright management has also undergone major changes in shape. In this study, not only beeing avoided to mention duplication of data which is already available in many sources; but also some field of professions related to music like sound designers/audio engineers, composers, musicians, programmers, investors or consumers has been examined in terms of how they have been affected by the current digital conversion process.