scholarly journals Content and network analysis of tweets tagged with #aphasia: an emergent community of practice

Aphasiology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Lucy Bryant ◽  
Melissa Brunner ◽  
Emma Power ◽  
Bronwyn Hemsley
Quest ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Phillip Ward ◽  
Erhan Devrilmez ◽  
Shiri Ayvazo ◽  
Fatih Dervent ◽  
Yaohui He ◽  
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Author(s):  
Alexandra Antonopoulou ◽  
Eleanor Dare

The chapter will outline the implications of two projects, namely the ‘Phi Books' (2008) and the ‘Digital Dreamhacker' (2011). These novel projects serve here as case studies for investigating new and challenging ways of advancing collaborative technologies, using in particular, Communities of Practice and insights gained from both embodiment and graph theory (social network analysis) as well as design. Both projects were developed collaboratively, between a computer programmer and a designer and a wider community of practice, consisting of other artists, writers, technologists and designers. The two systems that resulted also acted as methodologies, instigated by the authors with a view to facilitate, explore and comment on the act of collaboration. Both projects are multi-disciplinary, spanning ideas and techniques from mathematics and art, design and computer programming. The projects deploy custom-made software and fiction enmeshed structures, drawing upon methodologies that are embedded with dreams and stories while at the same time being informed by cutting-edge research into human behaviour and interaction design. The chapter will investigate how the projects deployed techniques and theoretical insights from social network analysis as well as motion capture technology and the wider concept of a Community of Practice, to extend and augment existing collaborative methods. The chapter draws upon Wenger et al (2002), as well as Siemens (2014) and Borgatti et al (2009), and will explore the idea of a new form of collective social and technological collaborative grammar, deploying gesture as well as Social Network Analysis. Moreover, the featured projects provide insights into the ways in which digital technology is changing society, and in turn, the important ways in which technology is embedded with the cultural and economic prerogatives of increasingly globalized cultures.


Author(s):  
Cindi Smatt ◽  
Molly McLure Wasko

The concept of a community of practice is emerging as an essential building block of the knowledge economy. Brown and Duguid (2001) argue that organizations should be conceptualized as consisting of autonomous communities whose interactions can foster innovation within an organization and accelerate the introduction of innovative ideas. The key to competitive advantage depends on a firm’s ability to coordinate across autonomous communities of practice internally and leverage the knowledge that flows into these communities from network connections (Brown & Duguid, 2001). But how does an organization do this? A key challenge for management is understanding how to balance strategies that capture knowledge without killing it (Brown & Duguid, 2000).


2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 160-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Cowan ◽  
Stephanie Richter ◽  
Tracy Miller ◽  
Jason Rhode ◽  
Aline Click ◽  
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