What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
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What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
A monoculture is when humans from diverse backgrounds all take on the same conventions.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
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.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
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.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
we are not part of the culture industry as we are not looking for commercial success
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.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
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
Cultures reveal differences through following different conventions, or taking different meanings and values from the same conventions.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
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
Invention is the proposal of new coordination solutions that go on to form new conventions.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
the arrival of nodes - the arrival of collections are new coordination solutions for community
A trend describes a convention in the process of taking on new adherents.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
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 custom is a long-established, unconscious convention that has been internalized.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
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.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
our style is to create 22 track playlists with thubnail, single sentence description, featured artists and a description - typically made at least two people