Tribe (internet)

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Representation of tribes through a social network diagram , clustered according to friendship relationships in a set of Facebook users.

Tribe or Digital Tribe (English for trunk ) is sharing a name for an unofficial group of people who share common interests, while loosely through social media or other Internet mechanisms are connected. The slang refers to the original name of tribe , which traditionally refers to people who are closely linked by geographic and genealogical conditions.

The concept is closely related to the concept of social networking and dates back to 2003, when the site tribe.net was launched by the science fiction author and internet activist Cory Doctorow . In 2004 Doctorow addressed the concept in his book Eastern Standard Tribe , which was published in Germany under the name Upload .

Research on Tribes

Analysis and identification of tribes are often heavily dependent on algorithms and techniques from statistical physics , computational biology, and network research .

Voice profiling

Communication within and below Tribes from Twitter users, clustered according to word frequency in language use. Tribes tend to have higher communication within than below.

According to a 2013 study by researchers at Royal Holloway and Princeton Universities, Twitter users not only have common interests, but also share potentially unconscious language features.

The campfire

Each tribe has a platform, which is also known as a campfire , around which the group gathers. These usually allow one or more of the following tribal activities:

However, tribes are also created around platforms outside these.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Digital Tribes - Creating Behavior Change in Users , www.theuxreview.co.uk , 2012
  2. ↑ EASTERN STANDARD TRIBE IN GERMAN - FREE CREATIVE COMMONS DOWNLOAD , http://craphound.com/ , 2008
  3. ↑ People with same interests or occupation form 'tribes' on Twitter , Daily News and Analysis, Friday March 15, 2013
  4. ↑ a b Word usage mirrors community structure in the online social network Twitter , EPJ Data Science , 25 February 2013
  5. ^ Cragg, M., The rise of the Twitter tribes , The Guardian , April 2, 2011
  6. ^ Jason Rodrigues: Twitter users forming tribes with own language, tweet analysis shows . In: The Guardian , March 15, 2013. 

Bibliography

  • Cory Doctorow: Eastern Standard Tribe. TOR, March 1, 2004, ISBN 0-7653-0759-6
  • Seth Godin: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us. Portfolio hardcover, October 16, 2008, ISBN 1-59184-233-6