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- Title
The phenomenology of sharing: social media networking, asserting, and telling.
- Authors
Zingale, Nicholas C.
- Abstract
This article takes up the current promise of computer-aided social networks as mechanisms for sharing in experiences. The author examines social networks phenomenologically, not merely as a tool for providing information and shaping what we think but as a social construct for what can be shared, how we think, and what can be known. The analysis identifies a connection between social networks and artificial intelligence systems, while also suggesting that significant experiential gaps built into the systems can lead to distortions in the ontology of shared experiences. The author argues, by applying concepts from Kant, Arendt, Schutz, and Heidegger, that computerized social networks offer an unparalleled opportunity for public administrators to discover and learn about social conditions, but these networks are not without significant limitations. An appreciation for the limits to sharing implicit in computerized social networks and artificial intelligence systems can be made explicit by applying concepts from phenomenology. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
ONLINE social networks research; PHENOMENOLOGY; ARTIFICIAL intelligence research; SOCIAL constructionism; PUBLIC administration research
- Publication
Journal of Public Affairs (14723891), 2013, Vol 13, Issue 3, p288
- ISSN
1472-3891
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/pa.1468