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Cutting the trees of knowledge: Social
software, Information architecture and Their
epistemic consequences
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Digitalization vs. Traditional Media
Internet– Provide an
interactive component
– Involve all interested people
– World Wide Web allows information to flow and forth
Radio, TV, Phone Radio, TV, Phone – information
flowing in one – direction only
– Support one –to – one communications
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Print Press
Its inherent tendency to phrase the nature of information and knowledge in economic terms
Disadvantages – high economic cost – Printing press– Printing material– Disseminating
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Problems of electronic media Author: the owner of information
Copyright: the ownership which had to be
judicially protected
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Electronic publishing
Commercial publishers of scientific books and journals
Demands of scientific careers
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Open Access Movement It is a social movement in academia,
dedicated to the principle of open access — — to information-sharing for the common good (Wikipedia).
Tracing its history at least to the 1960s, but became much more prominent in the 1990s with the advent of the Digital
Age (Wikipedia).
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Open Access Movement
Debate of freedom of (scientific) information
All proponents agree:1. Removing price barriers (‘free as in
free beer’)2. Removing permission barriers
(‘free as in free speech’)
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1. Social software integrates various aspects of group interaction
2. It is simple to use3. It enables, through its architecture,
groups to self-organize rather than have structure or organization
Social Software
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Core: “Social”
arXiv: is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics which can be accessed via the internet.
Social Software
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Concrete or first-order beliefs are supplanted by metabeliefs
There is a shift from the knowledge of facts and direct acquaintance towards knowledge about beliefs
Downloadable beliefs
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Downloadable beliefs
Wikipedia:1. It was a bottom-up challenge to
traditional encyclopedias
2. Not only offer and abstract and schematic overview of a topic but immediately give access to an incredibly fine-mazed, highly specialized
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The social organization of knowledge production, storage, distribution boils down to a biological fundamental
Advantage: - time saving Idle human intelligence
Knowledge economy
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Dewey Decimal Classification Universal Decimal Classification Library of Congress Subject
Classification
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Tagging (labeling):one creates an extra sphere of meta-data (the so-called ‘semantic web’), with the specific function of identifying, discovering, assessing, and managing the described entities.
e.g. blog posting
Classification
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Folksonomies: help expand our understanding
by showing the overlap between many related concepts and how they merge into the wealth of social practices that give them meaning.
Classification
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