Issuu is a service for creating and sharing publications based on pdf-files. The publication above, I made in Impress (Powerpoint of Open Office) and exported to pdf and uploaded to Issuu. From Issuu I got a piece of code I pasted into this blog post. The embed code from Issuu can be emedded on practically all kinds of web pages.
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The document Uncertainty and the Ghost of Plato is a kind of brainstorming text, and I used Impress to structure it. The presentation form can also be handy in future conversations and conferences.
The image is a conceptual illustration of my research. ‘Technoscience’ and ‘Web 2.0′ knowledge processes constitute some kind of core areas and ’social epistemology’ establishes a theoretical boundary object between them. The base contains my own concepts ‘long tail epistemology’ and ‘participation literacy’. The atmosphere is filled with subjects, disciplines and approaches influencing my research processes.
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.
This is the brand new research blog of Peter Giger. I blog about social knowledge- and research processes including tips about technology in relation to reserch.
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