{"id":58,"date":"2014-11-11T11:03:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T11:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/?p=58"},"modified":"2023-10-27T11:06:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T10:06:55","slug":"the-third-edge-knowledge-in-social-networks-book-launched-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/index.php\/2014\/11\/11\/the-third-edge-knowledge-in-social-networks-book-launched-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"The third edge: knowledge in social networks, book launched in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexandra Okada, Tuesday 11 November 2014<\/p>\n

Dr. Izabel Meister, who was a PhD student in KMi in 2012, has just published a book about her thesis, which was launched today in Brazil.<\/p>\n

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Her thesis co-supervised by Dr. Okada – \u201cThe weaving of knowledge in social networks habitat of collective intelligences\u201d \u2013 focused on social networks as a space of creation and acquisition of knowledge. She analyzed some social networks in FaceBook and in the OER Tool-Library of the European Project: OpenScout developed by KMi team: Dr. Alexander Mikroyannidis, Dr. Suzanne Little, Dr. Ale Okada, and Dr. Peter Scott.<\/p>\n

FOREWORD written by Ale Okada<\/p>\n

\u201cThe third edge: knowledge in social networks\u201d is an interdisciplinary book that points out the collective intelligence of social networks as well as the convergence and expansion of knowledge from the \u201cRelevant Status\u201d.<\/p>\n

The curious title proposed by Izabel Meister is an invitation to reflect on the social network knowledge as a means of transcending the delimited boundaries via the third edge which leads to the break-up of delimited spaces. So, according to Foucault (1997:356) \u201ca place without a place, that exists by itself\u201d; refers to a space without space, or better put, a space of every space. In this sense, the author discusses contemporary knowledge on the web, based on the abundant access to information and sources, in which the process of construction transcends the predetermined spaces and times that were established for this purpose. Here a third way flourishes, which invites us readers to think differently about the construction of knowledge of and within the social networks (Okada, 2014).<\/p>\n

This work studies the interdependent processes in which knowledge is updated and expanded to connections between many participants, in a complex, chaotic, and hyperdynamic way \u2013 aspects of the web and of the openness movement towards cyberculture studied by many authors (Castells, 2005; Jones, 1998). Nevertheless, \u201cThe third edge\u201d proposes a different look at the emergence of collective intelligences which can be activated at any time and space as soon as they have been visualized by the \u201crelevant status\u201d, term defined by Meister as \u201cdue to its importance according to its utility, timeliness, or meaning\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meister\u2019s contribution offers us a valuable new outlook on Education and Cyberculture through the innovation of the process of construction of knowledge, which is based on her dissertation at Mackenzie University in S\u00e3o Paulo and the Open University in Milton Keynes (UK). At the Open University, she worked at the Knowledge Media Institute on and with open search networks as part of the Colearn project – Collaborative Open Learning (colearn.open.ac.uk<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In the three chapters of this publication, we can find the initial point of this research, the methodology of investigation, and the conceptional and empirical principles of interactive, complex, and chaotic culture, from which social networks emerge. Based on the interconnection of these three seminal references, we can consider the threading of web knowledge and the theory of Relevant Status explained in the last chapters.<\/p>\n

This book is a source of discussion for many readers:<\/p>\n