You might find something in this blog if you are interested in knowledge questions in social environments or technology based research methodologies and tools (hmmm… are there other kinds…?). I will share tools and practices I use, write about knowledge processes in web 2.0 and beyond, and share basic thought about doing science and research in a bloggish trans-understandable language.
Who is the author, Peter Giger?
Peter Giger is working and researching at Blekinge Institute of Technology in the southern part of Sweden. The region is called Blekinge and sometimes aspire to be called “The garden of Sweden”. O, and he really likes gardening - though generally without getting his hands dirty (is that really possible?). He loves music and is quite creative in using a camera together with a computer to compose images which generally transends the crude experience of this (sometimes) wonderful world. And he really takes an interest in the art of creating the perfect cafe latte.
What is Long Tail Epistemology?
Long Tail Epistemology is a part of or a subdivision of the subject ’social epistemology’. My own academic location is the field of Technoscience, which is a field of research that starts in the premise that science and technology cannot be separated. The concept ‘Long Tail Epistemology’ is constructed as a boundary object between Epistemology and web 2.0 knowledge processes with a focus on knowledge based relations between the head and tail. Long Tail Epistemology has close relations to Technoscience, STS (Science and Technology Studies), Cultural Studies and gender studies, with special interests in general philosophy, social science and computer science. My perspective of Long Tail Epistemology is that it has to be transdiciplinary if it is going to be true to the practical side of the Long Tail.
