MCS 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Explicit Knowledge, Tacit Knowledge, Random Access
17 Oct 2014
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Information concepts & the information environment: consumers of digital information, digital natives: grew up with technology. Control consumption both how and when they consume it. Contributions and relationships to communities: natives vs. immigrants. Random access to information vs. linear, sequential routes. Immigrants learn information just in case & natives learn just in time : characteristics of digital natives. Expect information to be instantly relevant, applicable and free. Willing to contribute context, including with their person information. Express themselves through personalization and build communities online around shared interests. Unspeakable (as soon as it is recognized it becomes data) Revised hierarchy: wisdom (understand principles), knowledge (understand patterns), information (understand relationships), data. Information and knowledge transfer: information transfer three primary components. Destination (receiver: vickery information transfer model b. Pattern interference: additional data that interferes with knowledge pattern, missing bits of data that make the pattern incomplete, knowledge transfer. Characteristics: transfer across groups, benefits the aggregate.
