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Entering the New Market Place
No full textOn the basis of the experience gained by implementing the German national Internet information server for the social sciences, some general reflections are made on the status of providing information by this communication channel. For a certain time the dissemination of information via the Internet will mean an extra workload for the majority of traditional participants in the information market. Other information and publishing media like books, journals or databases will remain the central part of the market. On the other hand it is obvious that Internet information activities will have an essential impact in the near future, while the market player's positions will undergo a fundamental redefinition. Before entering the new market, information providers must analyze carefully their own goals, strenghs and possibilities. The task of social information specialists is to assure the scientific quality of the information they are offering
Monadic Exploration
No full textMonadic exploration is a new approach to interacting with relational information spaces that challenges the distinction between the whole and its parts. Building on the work of sociologists Gabriel Tarde and Bruno Latour we turn to the concept of the monad as a useful lens on online communities and collections that expands the possibility for creating meaning in their navigation. While existing interfaces tend to emphasize either the structure of the whole or details of a part, monadic exploration brings these opposing perspectives closer together in continuous movements between partially overlapping points of view. We present a visualization that reflects a given node's relative position within a network using radial displacements and visual folding. To investigate the potential of monadic exploration we report on an iterative design process of a web-based visualization of a highly cross-referenced book and its six-month deployment
Das Projekt Social Justice
No full textSocial Justice bedeutet das Ziel und den Prozess hin zu einer gerechten Gemeinschaft, in der alle Menschen materiell abgesichert leben können, sich wechselseitig helfen, sich als jeweils besondere Individuen anerkennen und Konflikte im Zusammenleben gewaltfrei und konstruktiv lösen. Im Zeichen von Social Justice geht es um die Interkulturelle Öffnung: soziale Dienste für Menschen zu öffnen, die Angehörige ethnischer Minderheiten sind. Erweitert wird dieser Ansatz durch die Intention des Projekts Social Justice als Realisierung von Diversity
