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The Social Epistemology of Wikipedia

By Paul Matthews ⋅ July 21, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Notes from a special issue of Episteme on the epistemology of mass collaboration. In the set of articles reviewed, philosophers consider Wikipedia from the perspective of theories of testimony and truth.

Social epistemology as a foundation for information services

By Paul Matthews ⋅ July 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

An article arguing for social epistemology as a foundation and theoretical framework for information science.

Capital from Community

By Paul Matthews ⋅ March 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A paper which explores how social capital, underemphasised in early KM, needs to be factored into the design of knowledge sharing tools. Image: Nicolas Haskins

Metafilter as a CoP > Noisy Signals

By Paul Matthews ⋅ January 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A study of the massive community blog Metafilter and its conformation (or not) to CoP patterns of identity, organisation and knowledge exchange

Wisdom is …

By Paul Matthews ⋅ January 12, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

..fuzzy, according to a new paper that looks at understanding of the concept of wisdom in the literature and amongst aspiring info. pros

Knowledge, the ens and the outs of it

By Paul Matthews ⋅ January 8, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A comparison of approaches to KM – from the static to the dynamic and (not) back again.

Distributed Cognition – IT has feelings too?

By Paul Matthews ⋅ January 7, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

In which I discover the concept, coming from psychology and HCI, seeming to give equal rights to the inananimate

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