Buckingham Shum, Simon; Cannavacciuolo, Lorella ; De Liddo, Anna; Iandoli, Luca and Quinto, Ivana
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.4018/jdsst.2011040102 |
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Abstract
Current traditional technologies, while enabling effective knowledge sharing and accumulation, seem to be less supportive of knowledge organization, use and consensus formation, as well as of collaborative decision making process. To address these limitations and thus to better foster collective decision-making around complex and controversial problems, a new family of tools is emerging able to support more structured knowledge representations known as collaborative argument mapping tools. This paper argues that online collaborative argumentation has the rather unique feature of combining knowledge organization with social mapping and that such a combination can provide interesting insights on the social processes activated within a collaborative decision making initiative. In particular, the authors investigate how Social Network Analysis can be used for the analysis of the collective argumentation process to study the structural properties of the concepts and social networks emerging from users’ interaction. Using Cohere, an online platform designed to support collaborative argumentation, some empirical findings obtained from two use cases are presented.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2011, IGI Global |
| ISSN: | 1941-630X |
| Keywords: | argument mapping tool; concept network analysis; decision-making process; group decision Support System, Knowledge Management, Online Collaborative Tools, Social and Concept Network Visualization, Social Network Analysis |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Knowledge Media Institute |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
| Item ID: | 29303 |
| Depositing User: | Kay Dave |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Aug 2011 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2012 19:58 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/29303 |
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