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