====== European Network for Social Intelligence ======

http://www.sintelnet.eu/

===== Grupo de Trabajo "Socio-technical epistemology" (WG4) =====

http://www.sintelnet.eu/content/socio-technical-epistemology

Collective forms of use of ICT will have a deep impact on the way we socially acquire, maintain and distribute reliable knowledge. To address this issue, the general goals of WG3 are

  - to stimulate and coordinate interdisciplinary research aimed at analysing and describing social processes and procedures that support the generation, acquisition and transmission of reliable knowledge, and
  - to identify general principles for the desgin  of future socio-technical infrastructures that promote the acquisition of reliable beliefs and knowledge.
Some sample topics that are relevant for this WG are:

  * Reliable communication in socio-technical systems
  * Social reality as both the product of the agents' beliefs and an object of cognition
  * Argumentation in socio-technical systems
  * Opinion dynamics and social networks (the dynamics of epistemic agreement)
  * Interactive epistemology in socio-technical systems
  * Emergence of epistemic authority in social networks
  * Privacy as a social epistemic norm
  * Procedures to aggregate beliefs and judgments in socio-technical systems