Implementing a Social Knowledge Creation Environment

Authors

  • Matthew Hiebert
  • William R. Bowen University of Toronto Scarborough.
  • Raymond Siemens University of Victoria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22230/src.2015v6n3a223

Keywords:

digital humanities, social knowledge creation, social media, community of practice, knowledge representation, infrastructure, prototyping

Abstract

“Social knowledge creation,” an emergent area of research interest for digital humanists, promotes experimental critical interventions into more traditional knowledge production processes. The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria with Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (University of Toronto Scarborough) have iteratively prototyped a Web-based platform for social knowledge creation called Iter Community. This article discusses the platform’s implementation as a critical intervention in scholarly production and publication, specifically how it provides new opportunities for research and serves as a model to allow for greater involvement of scholars and the public in knowledge creation.

Author Biography

Matthew Hiebert

Assistant Professor of English (Limited Term)

Electronic Textual Cultures Lab Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Victoria

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Published

2015-10-22

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 3 (2015)

Section

Articles

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