Web 2.0 Systems in the Brigade Combat Team as an Enabler of Mission Command: A Dialectic in Information Discourse

Abstract

This qualitative research in the field of information science aims to examine the use of Web 2.0 systems in the Brigade Combat Team as an enabler of mission command. This thesis explores three research questions: 1) does the utilization of Web 2.0 systems as a facilitation mechanism for mission command serve as a benefice or an impediment to the decision cycle? 2) Do commanders and staffs benefit from the overabundance of available data and information as tools to improve the quality of decisions? Or, 3) does excessive user content impede decisions, manifesting as a form of buffer overflow? This work uses a combination of qualitative analysis, abductive reasoning, and case studies to analyze existing scholarship on the communications environment and how contemporary Web 2.0 systems affect military populations decision making with implications for further study.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 10, 2016
Accession Number
AD1020391

Entities

People

  • Michael D. Villalobos

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognitive Workload
  • Command And Control
  • Communication Systems
  • Education
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Network Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Social Media
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Military Science
  • Systems Analysis and Design