Robert Prey

803 total citations
17 papers, 336 citations indexed

About

Robert Prey is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Music and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Prey has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 336 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 4 papers in Music and 3 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Robert Prey's work include Digital Games and Media (4 papers), Music History and Culture (4 papers) and Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 papers). Robert Prey is often cited by papers focused on Digital Games and Media (4 papers), Music History and Culture (4 papers) and Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 papers). Robert Prey collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Canada and United States. Robert Prey's co-authors include Marc Esteve Del Valle, David B. Nieborg, Jeremy Wade Morris, Thomas Poell, Stuart Cunningham, Jamie Doucette, Brooke Duffy, Christian Fuchs, Sebastian Sevignani and Marisol Sandoval and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Information Communication & Society and The Information Society.

In The Last Decade

Robert Prey

16 papers receiving 305 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Prey Netherlands	7	173	74	67	50	49	17	336
Patrick Burkart United States	12	141 0.8×	69 0.9×	58 0.9×	73 1.5×	80 1.6×	22	339
Pelle Snickars Sweden	6	140 0.8×	71 1.0×	56 0.8×	84 1.7×	42 0.9×	38	357
Lee Marshall United Kingdom	14	169 1.0×	212 2.9×	181 2.7×	49 1.0×	92 1.9×	22	477
Aram Sinnreich United States	6	127 0.7×	28 0.4×	22 0.3×	81 1.6×	49 1.0×	38	281
Michael Mauskapf Canada	3	118 0.7×	29 0.4×	40 0.6×	10 0.2×	29 0.6×	11	262
Noah Askin United States	5	112 0.6×	28 0.4×	38 0.6×	9 0.2×	34 0.7×	8	235
Vincent Manzerolle Canada	11	164 0.9×	20 0.3×	38 0.6×	43 0.9×	37 0.8×	18	259
Davide Beraldo Netherlands	6	153 0.9×	23 0.3×	11 0.2×	70 1.4×	37 0.8×	14	250
Marc Esteve Del Valle Netherlands	12	250 1.4×	20 0.3×	15 0.2×	251 5.0×	16 0.3×	34	463
Todd Chambers United States	9	250 1.4×	7 0.1×	28 0.4×	293 5.9×	51 1.0×	17	502

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17 of 17 papers shown

Prey, Robert, et al.. (2025). The Labor Process of Relational Labor: The Case of the K-pop Fan Platform “Bubble”. Popular Music & Society. 48(4). 416–436.

Prey, Robert, et al.. (2024). Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice. Big Data & Society. 11(4). 1 indexed citations

Prey, Robert & Marc Esteve Del Valle. (2023). The algorithmic network imaginary: How music artists understand and experience their algorithmically constructed networks. The Information Society. 40(1). 18–31. 3 indexed citations

Morris, Jeremy Wade, Robert Prey, & David B. Nieborg. (2021). Engineering culture: logics of optimization in music, games, and apps. Review of Communication. 21(2). 161–175. 16 indexed citations

Prey, Robert. (2021). Playlists and the Datafication of Music Formatting. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 2. 33–46. 2 indexed citations

Prey, Robert. (2020). Locating Power in Platformization: Music Streaming Playlists and Curatorial Power. Social Media + Society. 6(2). 71 indexed citations

Prey, Robert, et al.. (2020). Platform pop: disentangling Spotify’s intermediary role in the music industry. Information Communication & Society. 25(1). 74–92. 41 indexed citations

Prey, Robert. (2019). Background by Design: Listening in the Age of Streaming. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 1(1). 1–10. 4 indexed citations

Poell, Thomas, David B. Nieborg, Brooke Duffy, Robert Prey, & Stuart Cunningham. (2017). The platformization of cultural production. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1–19. 10 indexed citations

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Prey, Robert. (2017). Nothing personal: algorithmic individuation on music streaming platforms. Media Culture & Society. 40(7). 1086–1100. 122 indexed citations

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Prey, Robert. (2016). Henri Lefebvre and the Production of Music Streaming Spaces. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 9(3). 1–22. 9 indexed citations

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Prey, Robert. (2015). Different takes Migrant world television and multiculturalism in South Korea. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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Prey, Robert, et al.. (2015). Value, Rent, and the Political Economy of Social Media. The Information Society. 31(5). 392–406. 46 indexed citations

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Prey, Robert, et al.. (2014). Critical Studies of Contemporary Informational Capitalism : The Perspective of Emerging Scholars. 76–90. 1 indexed citations

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Prey, Robert. (2012). The Network’s Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx’s Process-Relational Ontology. tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 10(2). 253–273. 4 indexed citations

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Doucette, Jamie & Robert Prey. (2010). Between Migrant and Minjung: The Changing Face of Migrant Cultural Activism in Korea. Japan focus. 8(12). 3 indexed citations

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Prey, Robert. (2010). Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future by Matt Hern. 44(3). 1 indexed citations

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