What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
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What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
- A trend describes a convention in the process of taking on new adherents.
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Andrew McCluskey added 3mo ago
we are seeing a trend towards playlists being made by three or more people. We are also projecting a trend towards collections and collectives
- A monoculture is when humans from diverse backgrounds all take on the same conventions.
from What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
Andrew McCluskey added 3mo ago
is collaborative playlist creation a monoculture within musicto?
- We have identified a convention — a pattern of behavior that a significant number of people repeatedly follow in an observable way.
from What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
Andrew McCluskey added 3mo ago
A convention of musicto’s culture is the making of playlist - specifically the making of collaborative playlists
- The culture industry describes companies and creators who forge new products and art forms where commercial success hinges on the future conventionality of those ideas.
from What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
Andrew McCluskey added 3mo ago
we are not part of the culture industry as we are not looking for commercial success
- Cultures reveal differences through following different conventions, or taking different meanings and values from the same conventions.
from What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
Andrew McCluskey added 3mo ago
lots of people make playlists - it is our culture that we make them together - not exclusively but it is the conventional approach within our culture
- A custom is a long-established, unconscious convention that has been internalized.
from What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
Andrew McCluskey added 3mo ago
this convention is now a custom - we have a custom of making collaborative playlists
- A style is a convention guiding the usage and arrangement of certain perceptual attributes such as visual elements, sound, and taste.
from What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
Andrew McCluskey added 3mo ago
our style is to create 22 track playlists with thubnail, single sentence description, featured artists and a description - typically made at least two people
- Invention is the proposal of new coordination solutions that go on to form new conventions.
from What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
Andrew McCluskey added 3mo ago
the arrival of nodes - the arrival of collections are new coordination solutions for community
- Cultural capital is the knowledge and proper performance of certain high-status conventions that identify an individual as a member of a high-status group.
from What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
Andrew McCluskey added 3mo ago
number of collab lists made and published is an indicator of high cultural status within musicto - along with node membership and collection contribution and collective membership