Community Informatics Design Applied to Digital Social Systems: Communicational Foundations, Theories and Methodologies

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This book introduces a Digital Social System Praxis Framework (DSSPF) integrating Computational Media, Evolutionary Systems Thinking and Design Thinking approaches to E-transformation practice, also called Community Informatics Design (CID). The DSSPF framework is intended to create communication spaces dedicated to knowledge production and sharing for social and organizational change. It allows social systems researchers and practitioners to recognize their synergistic roles in the praxis process to shape their future through social innovation projects. This transdisciplinary text provides potential students and practitioners fundamental concepts and tools for such design. It offers resources from the Pragmatic and Systemic philosophy of science for the co-construction of social architectures and infrastructures, and multi-aspectual design methodologies by which government, organizations and civil society can learn to ethically co-design common ground. This approach provides complementary and common patterns from known methods, models, and theories of social systems interventions that could support a generic framing of large scale sociotechnical systems: digital social innovation ecosystem, living Labs, Fab Labs, enterprise collaborative networks. There will be a particular focus on understanding and addressing the dimensions that make people from different communities of practice able to communicate and collaborate through multiple digital media, design platforms, worldviews and modeling approaches. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxx Global Transformation and Design Principles in the Knowledge Society (Pierre-Léonard Harvey)....Pages 1-32 Front Matter ....Pages 33-33 Universal Anteriorities and Third-Phase Science (Pierre-Léonard Harvey)....Pages 35-75 Community Informatics Design’s Theoretical Basis (Pierre-Léonard Harvey)....Pages 77-98 Community Informatics Design in Action: Towards Operational Ways of Thinking in Order to Start a Design Process (Block 3) (Pierre-Léonard Harvey)....Pages 99-116 Generic Communication and Community Informatics Design: Evaluation and Validation of Socio-technical Design of a Universal Communication Platform, the Informatics Design Assistance System, Using the CAPACITÉS Evaluation Model (Pierre-Léonard Harvey)....Pages 117-154 Towards a Scientific Collaborative Design Approach: The Construction of a Community Informatics Design Assistance System to Support Communities and Virtual Organizations (Pierre-Léonard Harvey)....Pages 155-198 Front Matter ....Pages 199-199 Reference Model, Governance Framework and Instantiation Strategy (Pierre-Léonard Harvey)....Pages 201-259 An Instantiation Methodology and Its Multiple Aspects (Pierre-Léonard Harvey)....Pages 261-277 Toward a Discovery and Strategic Alignment Matrices for Socio-technical Systems’ Design (Pierre-Léonard Harvey)....Pages 279-312 The Fields and the Definition Taken into Account for the Construction of the Multimodal and Multi-aspect Discovery and Strategic Alignment Matrices (2MDSAM) for the DSS Design (Pierre-Léonard Harvey)....Pages 313-344 The Organization and Governance of an Incubation and Learning Environment with the Help of Tool Boxes: Reference Model, Community Informatics Design Framework and Instantiation Methodology (Pierre-Léonard Harvey)....Pages 345-409 The Conclusion: Towards a Computerized Modeling Tool for a 2MDSAM with Fully Qualified and Assigned Functionalities (Pierre-Léonard Harvey)....Pages 411-420 Back Matter ....Pages 421-459