The dynamics of meaningful social interactions and the emergence of collective knowledge

Collective knowledge as a social value may arise in cooperation among actors whose individual expertise is limited. The process of knowledge creation requires meaningful, logically coordinated interactions, which represents a challenging problem to physics and social dynamics modeling. By combining...

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Published in:Scientific reports 2015-07, Vol.5 (1), p.12197-12197, Article 12197
Main Authors: Dankulov, Marija Mitrović, Melnik, Roderick, Tadić, Bosiljka
Format: Article
Language:English
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Cognition
Cognitive ability
Data processing
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Internet
Interpersonal Relations
Knowledge
Models, Theoretical
multidisciplinary
Science
Social behavior
Social interactions
Social Networking
Surveys and Questionnaires
User-Computer Interface
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Summary:Collective knowledge as a social value may arise in cooperation among actors whose individual expertise is limited. The process of knowledge creation requires meaningful, logically coordinated interactions, which represents a challenging problem to physics and social dynamics modeling. By combining two-scale dynamics model with empirical data analysis from a well-known Questions & Answers system Mathematics , we show that this process occurs as a collective phenomenon in an enlarged network (of actors and their artifacts) where the cognitive recognition interactions are properly encoded. The emergent behavior is quantified by the information divergence and innovation advancing of knowledge over time and the signatures of self-organization and knowledge sharing communities. These measures elucidate the impact of each cognitive element and the individual actor’s expertise in the collective dynamics. The results are relevant to stochastic processes involving smart components and to collaborative social endeavors, for instance, crowdsourcing scientific knowledge production with online games.
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/srep12197