Silicon Valley’s ascendant tribe is a global network, not a regional elite
Evidence
The ascendant tribe is composed of folks from the open culture / Creative Commons world, the Linux community, folks associated with the artificial intelligence approach to computer science, the Web 2.0 people, the anticontext file sharers and remashers, and a variety of others. Their capital is Silicon Valley, but they have power bases all over the world, wherever digital culture is being created. Their favorite blogs include Boing Boing, TechCrunch and Slashdot, and their embassy in the old country is Wired. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 168
Categorization
- XREF: Maps to the reader’s influencer/creator-culture foundational work: this tribes-and-embassies framing anticipates how self-branding micro-celebrity communities self-identify through shared blogs and platforms. — connects to: A tiny 150-person community disproportionately created Silicon Valley’s early web culture — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 133; Silicon Valley replaces inherited East Coast status with achievement-based meritocratic status — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 661; Elite tech status requires acceptance by a small closed inner network — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 202 (+1 more)
- DEFINE: Useful catalog of who the Web 2.0 ‘tribe’ comprised — open culture, Linux, AI, remixers — for situating influencer culture’s antecedents.
Broader Connections
- A tiny 150-person community disproportionately created Silicon Valley’s early web culture
#exemplifies(0.78) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 133 - Elite tech status requires acceptance by a small closed inner network
#contradicts(0.75) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 202 - Silicon Valley replaces inherited East Coast status with achievement-based meritocratic status
#qualifies(0.72) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 661 - Slowing down Silicon Valley’s pace is required to understand its social effects
#qualifies(0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 194