Status Signaling
understanding the subtle and interesting ways in which humans signal their status and reputation
by sari and · updated 1mo ago
Status Signaling
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
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Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
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Sam Liebeskind added 1mo ago
- We see status evolutions already happening online. It used to be high status to have a lot of followers. Now, many people view it as a “green flag” if someone isn’t even on social media.
from Clicks & Clout: How We Seek Status In the Digital Age by Rex Woodbury
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- Openness is a major driver of Evaporative Cooling. If anyone can join your community, then the people most likely to join are those who are below the average quality of your community because they have the most to gain.
from The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Network : Networks Course blog for INFO 2040/CS 2850/Econ 2040/SOC 2090
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- The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism.
from The Society of the Spectacle Quotes by Guy Debord
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