Comments on: Feudalism, Capitalism,...X-ism

Question: Feudalism, Capitalism,...X-ism

MarshallPoe — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:40:23 -0800

Help me coin a new word for...

I'm writing a book about online mass collaboration (Match.com, eBay, Craigslist, Flickr, MySpace, Wikipedia, MathSciNet, etc.). I need a catchy name that describes the thing itself and the behaviors characteristic of it. I want it to be an "–ism," like "feudalism" or "capitalism." Ideally, the term would bring to mind some essential trait of online mass collaboration, like the fact that it happens at a distance (is mediated). Here are some neologisms I've come up with: mediism, virtualism, wikiism, interism [from the Latin for "between"], apostism [from the Greek for "distance"], proculism [from the Latin for "at a distance."]

Vote or suggest something. No "Web 2.0" or derivatives please. Thanks.

By: JJ86

JJ86 — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:48:03 -0800

Hiveism, hivism?

By: humblepigeon

humblepigeon — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:50:26 -0800

Collaborism.

Collaboristic.

Don't coin a pseudo-latin/greek phrase. Those days are over.

By: sonofslim

sonofslim — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:50:53 -0800

e-mergent?

By: sunshinesky

sunshinesky — Tue, 01 May 2007 06:03:53 -0800

e-mergent is pretty sweet...

By: Kevin S

Kevin S — Tue, 01 May 2007 06:04:56 -0800

massocollaborism

massocollaboration

I do like humblepigion's collaborism

By: Jakey

Jakey — Tue, 01 May 2007 06:17:49 -0800

I kind of like humblepigion's collaborism, too.

What about kathedism, from the greek for all(or everyone) here?

By: kc0dxh

kc0dxh — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:02:18 -0800

You may be having trouble because there's already a word for it: communism. The only difference from traditional communism is that the community lacks a center in meatspace. The center exists, just in bitspace. Think "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need".

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:13:11 -0800

coincidism
collusionism
amalgamism
consolidism

And not a one in the firefox spellcheck dictionary, so that's a good sign, I guess.

By: theiconoclast31

theiconoclast31 — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:14:07 -0800

MetaFilter: Bitspace Communism

By: mkultra

mkultra — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:23:18 -0800

WriteYourOwnBookism.

By: lowlife

lowlife — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:32:30 -0800

Communitism - like Communism, but different!

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:38:23 -0800

Groupery.
Clusterness.
BentoBoxism.
Sardinery.

I got nothing.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:41:02 -0800

SoupAndSaladism.
Blenderiffic.
Poolishness.
Stewy.

Still nothing.

By: genghis

genghis — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:44:58 -0800

Irritatingneologism.

Or "Jism" for short.

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:46:15 -0800

dotcommunism
antischism
interschism
wwwism
wwwebism

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:48:21 -0800

Hodgepodgery.
Smorgasbordery.
Melanginess.
Pasticharama.

Yikes.

By: MarshallPoe

MarshallPoe — Tue, 01 May 2007 08:02:39 -0800

I'm thinking about writing another book just so I can use some of Dizzy's great new terms...

By: rush

rush — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:02:39 -0800

I thought it was just online collectivism? Info-collectivism?

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:22:16 -0800

I like dotcommunism, but it's probably a little too cute. Truth be told, wiki-ism is probably best, because it's the only one that seems right and immediately brings to mind its meaning.

By: Sprout the Vulgarian

Sprout the Vulgarian — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:30:25 -0800

Frankism

By: Aquaman

Aquaman — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:34:57 -0800

Mmolaborism

By: adamrice

adamrice — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:44:56 -0800

The phrase that I think of when I think of the stuff mentioned here is "participatory culture," althoug that's not an ism, and doesn't fit precisely with the intended meaning. Although it's mostly used in reference to the online world, it doesn't explicitly reference that, and I'm not sure that stuff like match.com or ebay amount to participatory culture, though flickr and wikipedia do.

Communism and collectivism don't quite work to my mind, even apart from the baggage those words have acquired. "Online communalism" might work.

Disintermediation is used sometimes to describe the way the network allows individuals direct access to one another, without going through gatekeepers like television/newspapers/retailers, and that's an element of this, but not all of it.

By: rhizome

rhizome — Tue, 01 May 2007 12:02:04 -0800

It's not communism, but communalism. Disintermediation allows it to flourish.

Match.com is collaborative?

By: parallax7d

parallax7d — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:58:15 -0800

Remolaboration

By: rob511

rob511 — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:48:41 -0800

epluribism
symbiotics
tholianism
futilism

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:17:33 -0800

A quick few:

discorporatism (you know, because it puts power in the hands of the people and because we're disembodied out on the web)
mutualism (which already is a word, but you could whack an e- on the front, I suppose)
e-volution (stick an -ism on the end if you must, I guess)
elaborism (break off the e- for bonus points, labore = work from latin, hints at 'collaboration' from same root, and also to 'elaborate' or explain, not euphonius, though)

I could do this all day -- I love making up words -- but I gotta run for now.

By: poweredbybeard

poweredbybeard — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:18:53 -0800

Choose anything that starts with an e and a hyphen and you will live to (r)e-gret it.

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:41:57 -0800

Synergism and mutualism already exist.

Unanimi-ism? :P

Cooperatism, harmonism.

Conglomerism, combinism.

OK, space..

Speckleism or stippleism (would have liked to use strew, but it sounds terrible). Commodism :P

Diffusism, diffusionism, scatterism.

Aha! Dispersivism, or dispersalism..