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Rohit Bhargava • Non Obvious Megatrends: How to See What Others Miss and Predict the Future (Non-Obvious Trends Series)
“I’ll be Dancin’”: American Soldiers, Cute YouTube Performances, and t
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With most content existing online, it is much easier to track attribution and the original source of a remix. This is critical, because populations whose work has historically been appropriated, can now more freely share their work online to be discovered and transformed.
Maria Salamanca • Remix Culture: Jumpstarting Creativity
In the culture where people largely express who they are by tagging the brands they choose to wear, eat, and wash their face with , it was surprising to come across someone whose identity doesn’t revolve around brands.
Viktoriia Vasileva • Have We Reached Peak Brand?
Stephanie launched the online version of the venture, WeCommune.com, in early 2009. A simple yet innovative platform, it makes it easier for people to come together and share resources in ways that fit into modern lifestyles. “WeCommune helps build deeper, smarter forms of community,” Stephanie
Rachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
TikTok is a fascinating mix of both gift culture and flex culture. There’s certainly an element of gift culture to TikTok: people dedicate so much of their time to making content for others’ pleasure, and your fame increases by how much of that entertainment you’ve successfully ‘given away’. But at the end of the day, it’s also about being beautifu... See more
Alex Danco • Scarcity Status versus Abundance Status (Gift Culture Part 3)
not only harnessing GFMs but also ensuring they are designed to attribute, celebrate and empower creators to live sustainably.