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Narratives of coherence: sensemaking and wayfinding in complex information ecologies
George SiemensSeptember 6, 2011
Pretoria, South Africa
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Fragmentation of information
Coherence formation challenged by: 1. limits of human cognition2. growth of information quantity
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Existing coherence forming systems
BooksNewspapersTV news programsMagazines
(anything that is structured and that the end user can’t speak into and alter)
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Information grounds “focuses on people’s information behavior in informal social settings”
Counts and Fisher, 2010
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Fragmentation of information requires that we weave together elements into some type of coherent framework
YoutubeBlogsTwitterFacebookTEDtalksKahn AcademyOnline news/information sitesTraditional coherence frameworks
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“the rise of millions of fragmented discussions across the world tend instead to lead to fragmentation of audiences into isolated publics”
Habermas 2006
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Coherence is an orientation about the meaning and value of information elements based on how they are connected, structured, and related
Antonovsky 1993
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Coherence expression(sensegiving)
ArtifactsNarratives
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Artifacts of sensemaking
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Organizing course content
Dolors Capdet
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http://x28newblog.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2008/09/06/cck08-first-impressions/
Image of course structure created by course participant
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Language games
Storytelling
Debate, dialogue
Descriptions
Clarification
Metaphors
Analogies
Examples
Resonance
Narratives of sensemaking
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Language/externalization reduces the “occult character” of mental images.
Wittgenstein
Language gives birth to thoughtVygotsky
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What is sensemaking?
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An effort “to create order and make retrospective sense of what occurs”
Weick 1993
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“a motivated, continuous effort to understand connections . . . in order to anticipate their trajectories and act effectively”
Klein et al. 2006
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“Sensemaking is about labelling and categorizing to stabilize the streaming of experience”
Weick et al. 2005
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Cynefin FrameworkDave Snowden
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Domains of Sensemaking
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Participatory sensemaking:“the coordination of intentional activity in interaction, whereby individual sense-making processes are affected and new domains of social sense-making can be generated that were not available to each individual on her own”
De Jaegher and Di Paolo 2007
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What is wayfinding?
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“the process that takes place when people orient themselves and navigate through space”
Raubal and Winter 2002
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“is the cognitive element of navigation … it does not involve movement of any kind but only the tactical and strategic parts that guide movement.”
Darken and Peterson 2002
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Adapted from:Darken and Peterson (2001).
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Sensemaking Wayfinding Information Model
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