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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
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
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
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
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
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.
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?
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
Are Curators the new Critics?