Category: Social-Technical
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Individual differences in information-seeking
Vast amounts of personalized information are now available to individuals. A vital research challenge is to establish how people decide what information they wish to obtain. People’s decisions about whether to seek or avoid information are related to an integration of the – instrumental value, – hedonic value and – cognitive value of information. Individual…
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The Power Of Us – Group Decisions @ “Behavior Change For Good”
Jay Van Bavel, and Dominic Packer have written a new book titled, The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony. It examines how group affiliations influence behavior and inspire both personal and social change. During the BEHAVIOR CHANGE FOR GOOD INITIATIVE interview, Van Bavel talks about why he and…
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Knowledge Defies Entropy
The SantaFe Institue SFIPress has the great theme of Knowledge defies entropy. Just released is the publication The Complex Alternative: Complexity Scientists on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Most papers in the first (of three) part were available as on-line posts in the “Transmission series“, dedicated to the reflections and research based on the COVID-19 pandemic. Also…
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Use complexity as a weapon … (but you might fail)
From Tunnel Vision to Lateral Vision – In the Media & Elsewhere with Gillian Tett, a very short vido speech shared by the Sante Fe Institute, has a very nice reflection on why society accepts crisises like the financial-2008 Use complexity as a weapon The closing statement of the short fragment tells it all: “If…
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Complicated, Complex, Wicked – All Together to innovate…
Innovation benefits and requires a wicked systems approach, which merges complicated and complex system thinking. Claes Anderssona and Petter Törnberga explain in a very well detailed article the details and reasoning behind, to be summarized as: Some more details I would like to highlight are: Approaches embodying a topdown rather than a bottom-up approach to…
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Wisdom in few quotes
Snoopy (& Charlie Brown) are inspiring. They are on this page, because I just came across an inspiring book from Björn Natthiko Lindeblad, on how to live a happy and meaningful life, even if you start of in a unpleasing direction. Nice about the book is the openness and honesty of the author.Some of the…
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Decision-making Uncertainties.
One Earth has a great article on decision-making for complex systems under uncertainties. “Identifying uncertainties in scenarios and models of socio-ecological systems in support of decision-making“There are many sources of uncertainty in scenarios and models of socio-ecological systems, and understanding these uncertainties is critical in supporting informed decision-making about the management of natural resources. Three…
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Article: Circles of dialogue of wisdom
Another open access article, worth reading for the approach taken to solve complex issues with stakeholders in different disciplines and cultures. Breaking monologues in collaborative research: bridging knowledge systems through a listening-based dialogue of wisdom approachSustainability Science Vol.16(3), 2021 The urgent need to address the sustainability issues of the Anthropocene requires a dialogue capable of…
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Reading: Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth
I want to share a good reading on a very actual and important (heating to hot) topic. Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there, published in “Energy Research & Social Science, Vol.70” and available on open access @ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101724 Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research…
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