Eurovision branding over the years - Dawn

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Making sense of how public voting works in Eurovision Asia.

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Rauno Freiberg

Make it fast. Make it beautiful. Make it consistent. Make it carefully. Make it timeless. Make it soulful. Make it.

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EU Open Source Strategy | Shaping Europe’s digital future

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Home - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Popularity Feedback Constrains Innovation in Cultural Markets

Real-world creative processes ranging from art to science rely on social feedback-loops between selection and creation. Yet, the effects of popularity feedback on collective creativity remain poorly understood. We investigate how popularity ratings influence cultural dynamics in a large-scale online experiment where participants ($N = 1\,008$) iteratively \textit{select} images from evolving markets and \textit{produce} their own modifications. Results show that exposing the popularity of images reduces cultural diversity and slows innovation, delaying aesthetic improvements. Popularity feedback is associated with changes to both selection and creative stages. During selection, popularity information triggers cumulative advantage, with participants preferentially building upon popular images, reducing diversity. During creation, participants make less disruptive changes, and are more likely to expand existing visual patterns. Feedback loops in cultural markets thus not only shape selection, but also, directly or indirectly, the form and direction of cultural innovation.

Leading the Herd Astray: An Experimental Study of Self-fulfilling Prophecies in an Artificial Cultural Market

Individuals influence each others' decisions about cultural products such as songs, books, and movies; but to what extent can the perception of success become a “self-fulfilling prophecy”? We have explored this question experimentally by artificially inverting the true popularity of songs in an online “music market,” in which 12,207 participants listened to and downloaded songs by unknown bands. We found that most songs experienced self-ful- filling prophecies, in which perceived—but initially false—popularity became real over time. We also found, however, that the inversion was not self-fulfilling for the market as a whole, in part because the very best songs recovered their popularity in the long run. Moreover, the distortion of market information reduced the correlation between appeal and popularity, and led to fewer overall downloads. These results, although partial and speculative, suggest a new approach to the study of cultural markets, and indicate the potential of web-based experiments to explore the social psychological origin of other macrosocio- logical phenomena.

The Evolution of Creativity

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Nokia Design Archive

Exploring unseen concepts of design and opportunities of design-driven transformation and change