[{"id":118,"title":"The spontaneous order of social media","sha":"ba46ce488fdcdeac8a56de99530c5fbc","user_id":481,"state":"published","body":"Social media is a spontaneous order. Or, rather, various social orders cultivated on social media platforms—patterns of interaction, virtual communities, co-creation and user-generated content—constitute their own spontaneous orders. Social media spontaneous orders emerge and evolve in an orderly yet unplanned way due to shared rules of procedure, simplified feedback mechanisms, freedom of entry and exit, and equality of status among participants[[1]](https://cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/ct_1_1_dizerega.pdf). Most studies of spontaneous orders have focused on markets[[2]](http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo3621679.html)[[3]](http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo5970048.html), science[[4]]( http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1026591624255), and democracy[[5]](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08913818908459563?journalCode=rcri20)[[6]](https://cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/sieo_5_2012_andersson.pdf). Recent extensions have explored the spontaneous order of religion[[7]](https://cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/sieo_3_2010_andersson.pdf), art[[8]](https://cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/sieo_3_2010_camplin.pdf), innovation[[9]](https://cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/j_potts.pdf), and cities[[10]](http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1557866988.html)[[11]](https://cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/ct_1_1_palmberg.pdf); but social media life in an open society—the *social media cosmos*—is also such an order.\r\n\r\nLike other *cosmos*, social media spontaneous orders are complex discovery procedures that coordinate the distributed knowledge of participants. Yet social media spontaneous orders are distinct from others because they privileges a different systemic resource and rely on unique feedback mechanisms. Social media participants do not use profits (e.g. markets) or priority of discovery (e.g. science) or votes (e.g. democracy) to assess performance; nor do they use price signals to coordinate plans and activities. The systemic resource of social media is attention: “focused mental engagement on a particular item of information”[[12]](http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Attention_Economy.html?id=j6z-MiUKgosC). Participants look to connectivity/interactivity ratios and many social media analytics as coordinative feedback mechanisms.","created_at":"2015-03-14T10:56:09.207Z","updated_at":"2015-03-15T06:00:19.534Z","zenodo_id":24619,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16051","subject":null,"tags":["social media","spontaneous order","self-organisation","economy","science","culture"],"vote_count":0,"view_count":1,"score":0.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":912,"title":"Cultural impacts of the biodiversity crisis and our disconnection from nature","sha":"fa8fea4b1199b93af46f0ca87ab5fda9","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Dramatic declines in global biodiversity -- i.e., the Biodiversity Crisis -- continue to motivate research on the causes and consequences of environmental degradation. High profile papers on declines in insect diversity and abundance, for example, allude to cascading negative effects on ecosystem services, including nutrient cycling, pollination, natural control of pests, and on the survival of insectivores. In a parallel and similarly complex (and probably compounding) phenomenon, sometimes referred to as Nature Deficit Disorder, humans are spending less time connecting with the natural world. These phenomena are likely having profound, measurable impacts on humans' creative cultural output.\r\n\r\nInspiration, for example, is another \"service\" that may be impacted by the phenomena described above. Insects, through their behaviors, colors, extended phenotypes, and ecological interactions, frequently catalyze and influence creativity. Insects are beautiful, lively, tranquilizing, scary, annoying, funny, etc. Fewer encounters with these arthropods, however, may lead to losses in their representation in art, poetry, music, dance, and biomimicry. Analysis of cultural outputs over time might already reveal signatures of degradation that echo declines seen in the natural world: references are less sophisticated, perhaps, and fewer taxa are represented. Contemporary references may also have a different tone (wistful or negative) than historical references.","created_at":"2022-02-11T16:40:09.322Z","updated_at":"2022-02-26T06:00:44.361Z","zenodo_id":6288546,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6288546","subject":null,"tags":["biodiversity","culture","poetry","literature","art","insects","arthropods"],"vote_count":0,"view_count":1,"score":0.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]