Ideas tagged with spontaneous order

The spontaneous order of social media

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 orderl...

By Trent MacDonald

The social media spontaneous order is a ‘constellaxy’

Social media is a spontaneous order. It is distinct from others because of its systemic resource—attention—and unique feedback mechanisms—social media analytics[[1]](http://beta.briefideas.org/ideas/ba46ce488fdcdeac8a56de99530c5fbc). Attention consists connectivity and interactivity of social me...

By Trent MacDonald