A community aggregating #communities
This seems an interesting example of how one news topic (the de-facing of Rothko’s painting in the Tate) is being aggregated into an arts community forum by the power of hastags.
although it is a powerful collating force, does it represent a community?
Aggregation as community? Does that challenge the idea that Bell (citing Baym) puts forward – that community exists where it is imagined? (or might aggregation be a form of imagining?) I’m curious about this, now!
Having spent for instance all week trying to work out if YouTube is indeed a community, I quite like the quote in Bell: ‘a culture of compatible consumption’ Shawn Wilbur.
I think aggregating is definitively a force for creating footfall in a sales driven environment for which social media seem like the proverbial dangling carrot.