Community
Mo Shafieeha and
Community
Audience: consumes, collates, collects
Community: contributes, cooperates, connects
There’s a big difference.
Milly’s building: generalist.worldtwitter.comHuman lives in communities. We join them, we sometimes leave them. Social networks should only be an underlying infrastructure to support our communities. Social networks are not our communities. Social network dies. Communities migrate and flock to different destinations.
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed
“Networks connect; communities care”
medium.com
Use or ornament? The social impact of participation in the arts
François Matarasso • 3 highlights
artshealthresources.org.uk
Zooming out: great communities, in the traditional sense, required limited options so people would remain dependent: no specialists or external trade (to ensure we all collectively worked together), and no diversity or weird ideas (to ensure a homogenous group with a focus on tradition). We had far worse medical treatment, underwent excruciating manual labor, and didn’t necessarily share the same interests with others, but because we were dependent on each other, the bonds were strong. Now the options are virtually limitless, and we’re seeing our social bonds decay as a result.
