Augmenting the Social Construction of Knowledge and Artifacts
Abstract
Within many domains, complexity encompasses many nuances of ill definition, fluidity, organizational variation, uncertainty, conflicting constraints, and multiple solutions. Responses to these areas of complexity necessitate the social construction of knowledge among various multi-disciplinary team members. Based on the literature, multi-theoretical foundations for augmenting the social construction of knowledge and artifacts were identified. These foundations include the recasting of such issues as task equivocality and task uncertainty, ecological and constructionist perspectives, and the interconnectedness of cognition, intelligence, and knowledge (the capacity to act). Group Cognition is offered as the basis of all cognition, and is explained as a combination of Distributed and Coordinated Cognition that directly affects the creation/recreation of distributed and similar knowledge within a team. Based on these foundations, initial guidance is offered for augmenting the social construction of knowledge and artifacts. It is important to remember that this report must be considered a work in progress, a snapshot of one exploration of a very complex subject.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA355528
Entities
People
- John T. Nosek
Organizations
- Temple University