Jenkins defines knowledge community as the community that comes out of a shared knowledge-base. After reading Jenkins, watching the Johnson video (see below), I want you to discuss the "anatomy of a knowledge community"using Jenkins and Johnson to help you do so. Be specific and draw on specific examples from both compositions. However you define the anatomy of the knowledge community, you must evidence it with both Jenkins and Johnson. Please feel free to use knowledge communities that you are a part of to help you define this. DUE by class time on Wednesday, July 2, 2014. **Don't forget to respond to at least two peers' posts.
According to Jenkins knowledge communities form around mutual intellectual interests. Collective intelligence is defined as "the sum total of information held individually by members of the group that can be accessed in response to a specific question." (27) Henry Jenkins describes some of the more basic values associated within a knowledge community and states that "what holds a collective intelligence together is not the possession of knowledge, which is relatively static, but the social process of acquiring knowledge, which is dynamic and participatory, continually testing and reaffirming the group's social ties." (54) Jenkins raises the question of whether, within a knowledge community, each community member should be able to set the terms of how much they want to know and when they want to know it. Since we live in the age of media it enables us to have access to communal modes of reception not just individual.
ReplyDeleteCollective intelligence refers to the ability of virtual communities to leverage the combined expertise of their members. "Survivor spoiling is collective intelligence in practice." When Survivor's spoilers gather and process information they form a knowledge community. These knowledge communities are held together through the mutual production and reciprocal exchange of knowledge. "Spoiling is an adversarial process-a contest between the fans and the producers, one group trying to get their hands on the knowledge the other is trying to protect." "The types of questions that thrive in a collective intelligence, however, are open ended and profoundly interdisciplinary; the slip and slide across borders and draw on the combined knowledge of a more diverse community." It seems that spoilers do indeed have the potential to harm the ratings of a hit television series due in a large part to the nature of the reality show itself.
I totally agree with the idea that collective intelligence is the process for people to get more knowledge and information. It also refers to the ability of knowledge community that are held together through mutual production.
DeleteAccording to Jenkins’s theory of knowledge community, the knowledge is no longer shared information for single man. He also defines that the collective knowledge is the sum total of information held individually by the members of the group that can be accessed in response to a specific question. As he considered, survivor spoiling is collective intelligence in practice. So, that means the knowledge system nowadays is becoming a whole system for all the human being. The old style of knowledge community will disappear. Jenkins also raised some questions about basic values connected to the knowledge community, like what holds the collective intelligence together.
ReplyDeleteBased on Jenkins’s ideas, the knowledge community is the community that gathers knowledge and connections between fans and producers. One typical model is the brain trusts, which organized by some agencies to solve some problems with a useful purpose. As the article mentions that brain trusts take the process protects privacy with the closed-door and ensure the high degree of accuracy once they do post their findings. I think the knowledge community is going to become some big communities that everybody can get some information and discuss together, like the online discussion board, online forums. It is not the privilege for some special people to get knowledge within a small community. It mostly becomes more public than before.
I strongly agree with your point that now knowledge is no longer a privilege for some certain people. People can access any information they want through media. But this phenomenon also raises my concerns. With the explosion of information, maybe too much useless or even fake information occurs which may mislead some people to get inaccurate information and consequently these people may apply these information to their work and life. This is my main concern about the media era.
DeleteI definitely agree that the old system for knowledge communities is going away and that a new system is evolving since people have more access to multiple modes of media. Because of this knowledge communities are changing and becoming more public rather than private.
DeleteI agree that the knowledge community is going to become a huge community that everyone can get information from and discuss ideas together. I think this concept already exists with the World Wide Web. Information is flowing everywhere around the world and everyone with Internet access can be a part of this world wide knowledge community that has developed so many unique and useful ideas.
DeleteJenkins describes Survivor as a knowledge community, however, an informal one at that. Intelligence communities lead to "the breaking down the divisions or suspicions that currently shape international relations," any community can be a knowledge community (Jenkins 29). So what then, is a knowledge community? A knowledge community is a "invisible and intangible engine for circulation and exchange of commodities," in many cases the ideas themselves the commodities (Jenkins 27). The community then benefits from collaboration, and also learns how to better work together as a result, while still accomplishing their goals.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile Johnson's concept of how an idea or thought is formed is based on a knowledge community as well, however, it is more focused on how this relates to indidvidual ideas. Johnson's video highlights the fact that many ideas require another party to form or fully rise to the top. That an idea may be dormant for a long time, and then when the time is right, it becomes active and useful. Consequently a knowledge community leads to good ideas, however, good ideas can come from outside of the knowledge community.
I agree with your idea that idea or thought is based on a knowledge community. It is right that many ideas need another party or form to support. And knowledge community also guides people to explore or know more about what they need.
DeleteJenkins describes Survivor as a knowledge community, however, an informal one at that. Intelligence communities lead to "the breaking down the divisions or suspicions that currently shape international relations," any community can be a knowledge community (Jenkins 29). So what then, is a knowledge community? A knowledge community is a "invisible and intangible engine for circulation and exchange of commodities," in many cases the ideas themselves the commodities (Jenkins 27). The community then benefits from collaboration, and also learns how to better work together as a result, while still accomplishing their goals.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile Johnson's concept of how an idea or thought is formed is based on a knowledge community as well, however, it is more focused on how this relates to indidvidual ideas. Johnson's video highlights the fact that many ideas require another party to form or fully rise to the top. Johnson proposes that an idea may be dormant for a long time, and then when the time is right, it becomes active and useful. Consequently a knowledge community leads to good ideas, however, good ideas can come from outside the knowledge community. Johnson also describes how technology advanced the share of ideas and furthered the spread of ideas, a knowledge community can be digital as well. These new digital communities are a high point of contention, because not enough is known whether a hyper-connected environment damages or aides a thought formation.
In Jerkins' article, he considers any community can be a knowledge community since knowledge must play important role in every community. Jerkins defines a knowledge community as a "invisible and intangible engine for circulation and exchange of commodities".
ReplyDeleteWith the help of media, knowledge and information have become longer a privilege serving for some certain people. In the era, everyone can be involved in a knowledge community, and people can even organize a knowledge community if they want with the help of internet and other tools. I love this change because knowledge is extremely precious thing which can lead people to innovate and solve problems. If we have more knowledge community occur, then more people will have the chance to exchange their ideas or even change their fate with the power of knowledge.
I really like what you said about knowledge being so valuable and that because of this new "media age" we live in more people have access to knowledge-based communities and this allows for more exchanging of ideas and progression.
DeleteI couldn’t agree that I also love the change that knowledge has become accessible to almost everyone. It’s fascinating to know that people can communicate worldwide and create new ideas that everyone can benefit from. I don’t think people take advantage enough of this vast knowledge community though and I hope in the near future more people can be a part of and contribute their ideas to better the community and foster more knowledge.
DeleteJenkins describes that knowledge forms around mutual intellectual interest, and it has become no longer shared information from a single man. He states that intelligence communities lead to “the breaking down the divisions of suspicions that currently shape international relations.” So he’s basically saying here that any community can be a knowledge community that is a circulation of ideas and knowledge. The community grows as a whole from the collaboration and circulation of the ideas and is better able to work together to accomplish their aspirations.
ReplyDeleteJohnson’s interesting video highlights that many ideas arise from other existing ideas and the combination of all of the ideas create knowledge. In the video he explores that some ideas might take longer to surface and become important but timing is everything and eventually ideas will become useful and active. His idea of a knowledge community agrees with Jenkins’ description, but Johnson adds that ideas can not only come from inside the community, more often than not they are from outside the knowledge community. The world around us contributes greatly to our own ideas and thus our knowledge.
"No one knows everything, everyone knows something, all knowledge resides in humanity." Jenkins sums up knowledge communities perfectly with this. He argues that no one human has full knowledge or understanding of a subject, but with other humans with common interests the pool of knowledge available is expanded. This knowledge community is furthered by globalized communication such as the internet and television.
ReplyDeleteJohnson talks about knowledge communities much in the same light but he seemed to think of the community as more a method of furthering individual ideas.
I agree with you in the first part of your comment. And I'm not sure if you were trying to clarify Johnson's view of the community or not, but I have to say that there is nothing wrong with his view of the community mostly because individual ideas are not necessarily harmfull to the community, in fact they might just be doing the opposite, they might help the whole community by helping one individual at a time. Please correct me if I got your point wrong.
DeleteI have to say that I could not agree more when the authos says that ideas come from a hunch and that they come slowly. As I believe that most of us have experienced when working in anything in our lives. The idea that we are looking for does not come in the moment we want to. They take long to form as he himself said they may take days or even years to form in the correct way. In my opinion he made a great point when he wrote that the internet despite being a source of great distraction and as some may say it's taking us the ability to form great thoughts worthy of praise and notice. It is in fact enabling us to create our ideas in a much faster way in my opinion. Since it is much easier to obtain others ideas that could complement our own.
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