Mining social semantics on the social web

In this article, the author explores the notion of Collective Intelligence (CI) as an emerging computing paradigm. The article is meant to provide a historical and contextual view of CI through the lenses of as many related disciplines as possible (biology, sociology, natural and environmental sciences, physics) in conjunction with the computer science point of view. During this explorative journey, the article also aims at pinpointing the current strengths and weaknesses of CI-related computational and system engineering design and implementation methodologies of CI-based systems. A non-exhaustive list of case studies set up the stage for CI applications as well as challenging research questions. These can be particularly directed towards the Social Web, as a very prominent example of synergistic interactions of a group of people with diverse cultural and professional backgrounds and its potential to become a platform for the emergence of truly CI-based systems.

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Media Competence and Media Performance in Using the Social Web

Media Literacy and the Effect of Socialization ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-56360-8_7 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 219-304

Author(s):

Christine W. Trültzsch-Wijnen

Keyword(s):

Social Web ◽

The Social ◽

Media Performance

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The Social Web and Privacy: Practices, Reciprocity and Conflict Detection in Social Networks

Privacy-Aware Knowledge Discovery ◽

10.1201/b10373-29 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 423-460

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Conflict Detection ◽

Social Web ◽

The Social

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Social Semantics: The role of conceptual knowledge and cognitive control in a neurobiological model of the social brain

10.31234/osf.io/36tm5 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Richard J Binney ◽

Richard Ramsey

Keyword(s):

Social Cognition ◽

Social Information Processing ◽

Social Behaviour ◽

Conceptual Knowledge ◽

Explanatory Power ◽

Social Phenomena ◽

The Social ◽

Health And Disease ◽

And Control ◽

Social Semantics

Research in social neuroscience has primarily focused on carving up cognition into distinct pieces, as a function of mental process, neural network or social behaviour, while the need for unifying models that span multiple social phenomena has been relatively neglected. Here we present a novel framework that treats social cognition as a case of semantic cognition, which provides a neurobiologically constrained and generalizable framework, with clear, testable predictions regarding sociocognitive processing in the context of both health and disease. According to this framework, social cognition relies on two principal systems of representation and control. These systems are neuroanatomically and functionally distinct, but interact to (1) enable development of foundational, conceptual-level knowledge and (2) regulate access to this information in order to generate flexible and context-appropriate social behaviour. The Social Semantics framework shines new light on the mechanisms of social information processing by maintaining as much explanatory power as prior models of social cognition, whilst remaining simpler, by virtue of relying on fewer components that are “tuned” towards social interactions.

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Modelos híbridos de indexação social: análise do repositório de fanfictions Archive of Our Own (AO3)

Páginas a&b Arquivos & Bibliotecas ◽

10.21747/21836671/pag15a2 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 30-51

Author(s):

Bruna Daniele de Oliveira Silva ◽

Deise Maria Antonio Sabbag

Keyword(s):

Hybrid System ◽

User Participation ◽

Digital Content ◽

Social Web ◽

Digital Environment ◽

Natural Languages ◽

The Social ◽

Semantic Dimension ◽

Participatory Model

The digital environment has enabled new forms of production, consumption and organization of digital content, such as social indexing. This indexing consists onthe attribution of free tags by users or communities. Fanfictions are fictional stories created by fans, they are deposited in repositories and their indexing is performed by the authors themselves, using a hybrid system of controlled and natural languages. The research aimed to describe qualitatively the social indexing implemented in the fanfictions repositor,Archive of Our Own, in order to make some reflections about the new modes of production and user participation in the representation of content onthe social web. It is concluded that the indexing performed in the analyzed repository adds a curated folkonomy through a team of volunteers trained to follow specific norms. The repository establishes a hybrid and participatory model for indexing itscontent, adding a semantic dimension while ensuring the recovery.

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THE CONSTRUCTION OF ALTERNATIVE FACTS: DARK PARTICIPATION AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN THE QANON CONSPIRACY

AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research ◽

10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11302 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

William Clyde Partin ◽

Alice Emily Marwick

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Production ◽

Science Studies ◽

Social Web ◽

Right Wing ◽

Symmetry Principle ◽

The Social ◽

Alternative Facts ◽

Current Events ◽

Tools And Techniques ◽

Trump Administration

QAnon is a right-wing conspiracy theory based on a series of posts (“Drops”) made to the imageboard 8chan by “Q”, an anonymous poster who claims to be a Trump administration insider and encourages their followers (“Bakers”) to conduct research to interpret and find hidden truths (“Bread”) behind current events. In this paper, we argue that QAnon Bakers adopt a “scientistic self” by producing and maintaining specific facts and theories that enable the conspiracy’s social and political cohesion over time. Rather than dismissing Q researchers’ conclusions out of hand, we adopt science studies’ symmetry principle to consider the tools and techniques of Baking. We argue that the institutional character of Baking distinguishes QAnon from other online conspiracy communities, which primarily rely on anecdotal evidence or sow doubt in scientific consensuses. Q, by contrast, research is intended to produce certainty through the systematic construction of alternative facts. In making this argument, we share and build upon other scholars’ critiques of participatory media. Indeed, we conclude that it is precisely the participatory affordances of the social web that have made QAnon so potent.

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Embedding TEL in an initial course in Teaching & Learning in HE: a co-design approach

Compass Journal of Learning and Teaching ◽

10.21100/compass.v10i1.368 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Francesca Robinson

Keyword(s):

Education Programme ◽

Initial Teacher Education ◽

Social Web ◽

Teacher Education Programme ◽

Mixed Methods Approach ◽

Participatory Learning ◽

Web Tools ◽

The Social ◽

Personal Use ◽

Teaching Learning

This research project explored how best to embed the use of social web tools in an initial teacher education programme by involving participants in the design process. A mixed-methods approach was used to find out participants’ experience of participatory learning using social web tools and interest in learning more about their use in higher education as part of the course. It also sought out participants’ preferred ways of learning and levels of interest in giving and receiving peer support. Results indicate that overall many participants have experience of using a range of social web tools as students, professionally or for personal use. The social web tools most participants selected to learn more about were cloud-based software for creating slides and topic curation tools and the least popular choices were video and podcast creation for courses or as assignments for students. Although participants expressed interest in a range of ways of learning, using the technology as part of a session and reading a bi-monthly newsletter were the most popular means. A proposal for introducing social web tools into the programme was made following on from the findings and the activities have been reviewed and adapted as part of an ongoing process.

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