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Music sharing trends have been shown to change during times of socio-economic crises. Studies have also shown that music can act as a social surrogate, helping to significantly reduce loneliness by acting as an empathetic friend. We explored these phenomena through a novel study of online music sharing during the Covid-19 pandemic in India. We coll...
Google Play Store's policy forbids the use of incentivized installs, ratings, and reviews to manipulate the placement of apps. However, there still exist apps that incentivize installs for other apps on the platform. To understand how install-incentivizing apps affect their users, we examine their ecosystem through a socio-technical lens and perfor...