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

ABSTRACT: 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 elu

SUBMITTER: Dankulov MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4502430 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature