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Empowering Social Knowledge with Information Technology: Technological and Cultural Issues Convergence

Empowering Social Knowledge with Information Technology: Technological and Cultural Issues Convergence

Fjodor Ruzic
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 43
ISBN13: 9781609602031|ISBN10: 160960203X|EISBN13: 9781609602055
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-203-1.ch015
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Ruzic, Fjodor. "Empowering Social Knowledge with Information Technology: Technological and Cultural Issues Convergence." Social Knowledge: Using Social Media to Know What You Know, edited by John P. Girard and JoAnn L. Girard, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 249-291. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-203-1.ch015

APA

Ruzic, F. (2011). Empowering Social Knowledge with Information Technology: Technological and Cultural Issues Convergence. In J. Girard & J. Girard (Eds.), Social Knowledge: Using Social Media to Know What You Know (pp. 249-291). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-203-1.ch015

Chicago

Ruzic, Fjodor. "Empowering Social Knowledge with Information Technology: Technological and Cultural Issues Convergence." In Social Knowledge: Using Social Media to Know What You Know, edited by John P. Girard and JoAnn L. Girard, 249-291. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-203-1.ch015

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Abstract

Social knowledge is not a new category; however, in these times of information-communications systems maturity, it becomes an extremely important and valuable asset. In the context of social knowledge, information technology should be constantly harmonized with cultural milieu characterized mostly by invisible culture and its actions. The aim is to make the real and acceptable convergence of cultural and technological issues. Since the knowledge becomes social only with the communication process, it is deeply connected with the terms of media. Social knowledge is alike any media activity where two-tier principles is included consisting cultural (politics and social paradigm) and technological (information tools) issues. The real drawbacks of social knowledge based on information-communications systems that means the dependency on information technology, is about the continuity - the entire social knowledge base could be fragmented or even lost for future generations. The information/digital content keeping technologies are developed well, but the knowledge and invisible culture assets are under the special treatment if we want to make our social knowledge as the legacy for future generations.

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