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Interdisciplinarity and InternetScience:

Some Concepts and Possibilities

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Overview

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Interdisciplinary and inter-epistemologicalframework

Translations and

flows

Economic Anthropology (and Political Economy & Institutional Economics,too!)

Back to the structural view: algebraic basis of self-organisation

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Reference Architecture

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(Based on Hollis, 1994)

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ICT as Inter-Epistemological Bridge

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ComputerScience

SocialScience

NaturalScience

Cellullarprocesses

Evolution

Constraints & enablements

Market pressure

Digital mediaCommunications

ICTSynthesis

ICT Use

Machine

Algebraicstructure

what aboutICT Design?

http://math.about.com/od/geometry/ss/platonic.htm

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Technology, Language, and Culture

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Media Naturalistic traditionconstructs the media

Which arecompiled

into other media

Language as medium ofcommunications

constructsnetworks of commitmentsthat support economic and

cultural production

Hermeneutic traditionorganises cultural

production,which influences the

construction of the media

Technology isnot value-

free!

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conom c n ropo ogy u eman,2001)

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Economy constructed through folk models andmetaphors

Theoretical writings in Western economics as culturalconstructions

Economy consists of two realms, community and market. Both facets make upeconomy,for humans are motivated by social fulfilment, curiosity, and the pleasure ofmastery,as well as instrumental purpose, competition, and the accumulation of gains The motor of capitalism is profit-making, but even the most market-driven

actor -- theglobal corporation -- mixes the two realms and relies on the presence ofcommunalrelations and resources for its success

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Gudemans 4 Domains of Value

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Back to Structure: Energy and FormalisationMetaphors

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BiologicalEcosystem

Sun

Internet ofthe future

Users

Impose as constraintson

automata interactionrules

Extract regularities instructure and

behaviourarising from physical

law

Formalise asstructural &dynamical

symmetries

(Some of the

structuralaspects of the)

: )

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