After receiving the comments from my committee, this past month has given me time to consider several issues surrounding my topic of knowledge production on Wikipedia. As I described in a previous post, I deciphered my own proposal and found that there were two different research questions being asked. I am partial to: What is [...]
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—René Descartes [1596–1660], mathematician that created Cartesian space Since I first began my thesis I have been sure that I would be involving Deleuze as a philosophical framework to help guide my work. It wasn’t always apparent how I would achieve this. I suppose some things take some time. While I was reading Christan Bök’s [...]
Tagged: Bök, delueze, nomad, pataphysics, royal science
As I stated in my last post I have to consider which direction I am going to proceed in. Do I want to know how Wikipedia works or what is going on? Both questions are interesting to me. However, I think that analyzing what is going on between Wikipedia and its predecessors is the question [...]
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One of the comments that I received from my committee was that throughout the proposal I’ve posed too many unrelated questions. By reading different sections of my proposal I have seen that these questions seem to be pulling the research in different directions. In response to this issue I have sifted through my proposal and [...]
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Institutional challenges and concessions within a community of practice Supervisor Dr Pierre Lévy Committee Dr Boulou E. de B’béri Dr Phillipe Ross University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Abstract The goal of the proposed research is to explore the challenges and the concessions that a community of practice makes in negotiating its identity within an [...]
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After years of using concept maps, I have a fondness for their ability to make connections to ideas that I normally would not consider. While researching for my thesis I came across Catgraph, a visualizer which outputs a network of either PNGs, PDFs, SVGs, etc of the supercategories, subcategories or articles from Wikipedia.
I’ve been reading a lot of Nonaka lately and he has a diagram that describes the knowledge creation cycle that consists of Tacit to Tacit, Tacit to Explicit, Explicit to Explicit, Explicit to Tacit. As you move from one form of knowledge to another you produce new knowledge. In order to help me understand how [...]
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Tagged: knowledge creation, nonaka, reading
In considering my thesis, I have come across a number of questions that have been at the forefront of my mind. How are the terms of meaning produced? How does meaning change over time? Is meaning produced through a continual process of negotiation within communities of practice? Meaning in communities of practice change over time. [...]
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