The aim of this article is to reconstruct the ways in which the organizational elites of the Quantified Self and Maker movements curate their respective pioneer communities. Based on a media ethnography carried out in Germany, the UK, and the USA it is demonstrated that the two movements adopt different curatorial models: curation through the use of an ‘unenforced trademark’ in the case of the Quantified Self movement and curation through ‘franchising’ in the case of the Maker movement. The fragility of both models is not necessarily a disadvantage to either and it has contributed to the rapid global spread of both communities. An analysis of these curatorial practices demonstrates that while these communities like to present themselves as having emerged from local groupings, rising ‘from below’, they are, in fact, figurations whose origin and overall exertion of influence can be traced back to Silicon Valley and the Whole Earth Network.

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策划先锋社区的脆弱性：深度中介和量化的自我和创造者运动的传播

本文的目的是重构量化自我和创造者运动的组织精英策划各自先锋社区的方式。根据在德国，英国和美国进行的媒体人种志研究，这两个运动都采用了不同的策展模型：在“量化自我”运动中通过使用“非强制性商标”进行策展，在“量化自我”情况下通过策展“在Maker运动中）。两种模式的脆弱性都不一定对两者不利，它促进了这两个社区在全球的迅速普及。对这些策展实践的分析表明，尽管这些社区喜欢表现为自己是从本地群体中崛起，“从下方”崛起的，但实际上，他们是