Welcome to the Swarm
The text explores online swarms as decentralized networks of individuals and algorithms acting collectively, highlighting their coordination, lifecycle, and contrasts with other online formations like communities and organizations.
summerofprotocols.comBiology has a word for this undulating dance: “murmuration.” In a murmuration, each bird sees, on average, the seven birds nearest it and adjusts its own behavior in response. If its nearest neighbors move left, the bird usually moves left. If they move right, the bird usually moves right. The bird does not know the flock’s ultimate desti
... See moreStarlings. The synchronized movement patterns of a starling flock is also known as a murmuration. Guided by simple rules, starling murmurations can react to their environment as a group without a central leader orchestrating their choices; in any instant, any part of the flock can transform the movement of the whole flock. Collective leadership/par
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When participants and facilitators engage in a creative collaboration, they need to be able to pivot fluidly, not only individually but as a group, like starlings flying in murmurations.
