Using personal knowledge publishing to facilitate sharing across communities

Aïmeur, E., Brassard, G., & Paquet, S. (2003). Using personal knowledge publishing to facilitate sharing across communities. In M. Gurstein (Ed.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on (Virtual) Community Informatics: Electronic Support for Communities – Local, Virtual and Communities of Practice.

Abstract

The social and language barriers that exist between communities significantly hinder knowledge sharing and slow down progress. In this work, we investigate whether personal knowledge publishing, a web-based form of communication derived from weblogging, could facilitate the migration of knowledge across disciplinary boundaries. Case studies and the results on an online survey indicate that personal knowledge publishing is indeed helpful for interdisciplinary knowledge sharing. An important reason underlying this success is that this medium enables strong ties to develop between members of different knowledge communities.

Summarises weblog-related results of Sebastien’s dissertation Socio-technological approaches to facilitating knowledge sharing across disciplines

This post also appears on channel weblog research

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/03/07.html#a1116; comments are here.

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