WORLDBUILDING: Multiplayer collaging the future

Everyone’s job is world-building, even if they don’t realize it.”

These days many of the best online social experiences happen in very small-scale environments. A few friends, a loose microcommunity, a cozy corner with the right vibes.

It's in the air, thick with it, even, in certain places — the cozyweb, the indieweb, the slow web; tiny internets and run your own social; independent creative communities, local le... See more

The pieces concerned what might be termed “multiplayer mode”—that is, a growing cultural trend for creators to work on projects in loose conjunction with one another rather than in the strict hierarchies of Fordist production facilities or in the isolating individualism of post-Fordist freelance life. Multiplayer mode, they argue, is more empowerin... See more