network of excellence in internet science (multidisciplinarity and its implications, p.dini, lse)

Network of Excellence in

Internet Science

Kick-off Meeting

Brussels, 21-22 December 2011

Paolo Dini (LSE)

FP7-ICT-2011.1.6-288021 EINS

Interdisciplinarity and Internet Science:Some Concepts and Possibilities

Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

Overview

EINS Kick-off Meeting

• Interdisciplinary and inter-epistemological framework

• Translations and flows

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

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


Reference Architecture

EINS Kick-off Meeting (Based on Hollis, 1994)


ICT as Inter-Epistemological Bridge


Computer Science

Social Science

Natural Science

Cellullarprocesses

Evolution

Constraints & enablements

Market pressure

Digital media Communications

ICT Synthesis

ICT Use

Machine

Algebraicstructure

…what about ICT Design?

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


Technology, Language, and Culture


Media Naturalistic traditionconstructs the media

Which are compiledinto other media

Language as medium ofcommunications constructsnetworks of commitmentsthat support economic and

cultural production

Hermeneutic traditionorganises cultural production,

which influences theconstruction of the media

Technology isnot value-free!


Economic Anthropology (Gudeman, 2001)


• ‘Economy constructed through folk models and metaphors’

• ‘Theoretical writings in Western economics as cultural constructions’

• ‘Economy consists of two realms, community and market. Both facets make up economy, for humans are motivated by social fulfilment, curiosity, and the pleasure of mastery, 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 -- the global corporation -- mixes the two realms and relies on the presence of communal relations and resources for its success’


Gudeman’s 4 Domains of Value



Back to Structure: Energy and Formalisation Metaphors


BiologicalEcosystem

Sun

Internet ofthe future

Users

Impose as constraints onautomata interaction rules

Extract regularities instructure and behaviourarising from physical law

Formalise asstructural & dynamical

symmetries

(Some of the structural aspects of the)

: )

Brussels, December 21-22, 2011EINS Kick-off Meeting

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Brussels, December 21-22, 2011EINS Kick-off Meeting