Federico Meschini: Networks, narrations and complexity
Digital humaniora-forsker Federico Meschini fra Università per Stranieri di Perugia/Ecole normale supérieure de Paris besøker for tiden instituttet og Wittgensteinarkivet og gir i den forbindelse gjesteforelesning. Åpent for alle interesserte!
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Sammendrag
"The epistemological status of digital environments, in particular the ones defined as social networks, seems to be dominated by a continuous information fragmentation and related denial of complexity, a situation confirmed by the large polarization and trivialization of opinions and arguments constantly observable on social media conversations. The antithesis of this thesis will start from the evolution of hyper-textual systems, whose original goal was, instead, the management of "the complex, the changing and the indeterminate" to continue with the evolution of the WorldWideWeb as a knowledge environment, characterized by a constant intertwining of abstraction and complexity. The final part, the synthesis, will first analyze cases of social conversation acting as counterexamples to the dominant opinion according to which social networks are the denial of the "collective intelligence", so to identify the crucial factors necessary for a sound use of these environments, including information literacy and media education, together with a knowledge of narrative and logical structures."