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As we grow accustomed to the convenience of shuffling a generated playlist, we forget that discovering music is an active exercise.
Tiffany Ng • How to break free of Spotify’s algorithm
Are Curators the new Critics?
Complex cultural ecosystems with many sub-units provide inherent sources of novelty for the mainstream — e.g. minority cultures, subcultures, and countercultures create new conventions with potential to provide stimulation to mainstream individuals.
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
recent evidence of collection editors driving home page design based on their needs and desires
In needing to maximize hedonic value for as many people as possible, a healthy cultural ecosystem must produce artworks of both relatively simple and complex stimuli. Complex stimuli preferred by experienced and educated individuals are alienating to less experienced and educated individuals, and simple stimuli are not entertaining to more experien... See more
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
this speaks to the levle of complexity in track selection but perhaps more to the complexity of the contextual exchange - cmpare go with spirit to a single sentence summary with no description - significant difference level of complexity and input required
Sharing tastes forges social bonds between people (i.e. bridges), while discrepancies in taste create barriers between people (i.e. fences).
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
literally what we are doing in collaborative playlists
So we should then examine every convention through its origin – especially within the context of social dynamics, power, and wealth.
What is Culture? Part Seven: Summary and Bibliography
we should not post how many years a curator has been in the community or how many playlists theyhave made - over all time - it should be last quarter.
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
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?
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