Interdisciplinarity and Internet Science: Some Concepts and Possibilities

Overview

Interdisciplinary and inter-epistemological framework Translations and flows Economic Anthropology (and Political Economy & Institutional Economics, too!) Back to the structural view: algebraic basis of selforganisation

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Reference Architecture

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(Based on Hollis, 1994)

ICT as Inter-Epistemological Bridge

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ICT Use

Digital media

Communications

Constraints & enablements Market pressure

Social Science

Cellullar processes Algebraic structure

Machine

Natural Science

Evolution

what about ICT Design?

Computer Science

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Technology, Language, and Culture

Hermeneutic tradition organises cultural production, which influences the construction of the media

Technology is not valuefree!

Which are compiled into other media

Media

Naturalistic tradition constructs the media

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Economic Anthropology (Gudeman, 2001)

Economy constructed through folk models and metaphors Theoretical writings in Western economics as cultural constructions Economy consists of two realms, community and market. Both facets make up economy, for humans are motivated by social fulfilment, curiosity, and the pleasure of mastery, as well as instrumental purpose, competition, and the accumulation of gains The motor of capitalism is profit-making, but even the most market-driven actor -- the global corporation -- mixes the two realms and relies on the presence of communal relations and resources for its success

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Gudemans 4 Domains of Value

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Back to Structure: Energy and Formalisation Metaphors Sun Users

Biological Ecosystem

(Some of the structural aspects of the) Internet of

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the future

Extract regularities in structure and behaviour arising from physical law EINS Kick-off Meeting

Formalise as structural & dynamical symmetries

Impose as constraints on automata interaction rules

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