From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic Social Annotation in the Quest for Collective Sensemaking

Ronen Tamari; Daniel Friedman; William Fischer; Lauren Hebert; Dafna Shahaf

doi:10.1145/3511095.3536361

From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic Social Annotation in the Quest for Collective Sensemaking

Ronen Tamari, Daniel Friedman, William Fischer, Lauren Hebert, Dafna Shahaf

The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science

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Abstract

The web has become a dominant epistemic environment, influencing people's beliefs at a global scale. However, online epistemic environments are increasingly polluted, impairing societies' ability to coordinate effectively in the face of global crises. We argue that centralized platforms are a main source of epistemic pollution, and that healthier environments require redesigning how we collectively govern attention. Inspired by decentralization and open source software movements, we propose Open Source Attention, a socio-technical framework for "freeing"human attention from control by platforms, through a decentralized eco-system for creating, storing and querying stigmergic markers; the digital traces of human attention.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HT 2022
Subtitle of host publication	33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media - Co-located with ACM WebSci 2022 and ACM UMAP 2022
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	236-239
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450392334
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3511095.3536361
State	Published - 28 Jun 2022
Event	33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, HT 2022 - Co-located with ACM WebSci 2022 and ACM UMAP 2022 - Virtual, Online, Spain Duration: 28 Jun 2022 → 1 Jul 2022

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Name	HT 2022: 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media - Co-located with ACM WebSci 2022 and ACM UMAP 2022

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Conference	33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, HT 2022 - Co-located with ACM WebSci 2022 and ACM UMAP 2022
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Virtual, Online
Period	28/06/22 → 1/07/22

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Tamari, R., Friedman, D., Fischer, W., Hebert, L., & Shahaf, D. (2022). From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic Social Annotation in the Quest for Collective Sensemaking. In HT 2022: 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media - Co-located with ACM WebSci 2022 and ACM UMAP 2022 (pp. 236-239). (HT 2022: 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media - Co-located with ACM WebSci 2022 and ACM UMAP 2022). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3511095.3536361

Tamari, Ronen ; Friedman, Daniel ; Fischer, William et al. / From Users to (Sense)Makers : On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic Social Annotation in the Quest for Collective Sensemaking. HT 2022: 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media - Co-located with ACM WebSci 2022 and ACM UMAP 2022. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2022. pp. 236-239 (HT 2022: 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media - Co-located with ACM WebSci 2022 and ACM UMAP 2022).

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Tamari, R, Friedman, D, Fischer, W, Hebert, L & Shahaf, D 2022, From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic Social Annotation in the Quest for Collective Sensemaking. in HT 2022: 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media - Co-located with ACM WebSci 2022 and ACM UMAP 2022. HT 2022: 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media - Co-located with ACM WebSci 2022 and ACM UMAP 2022, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 236-239, 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, HT 2022 - Co-located with ACM WebSci 2022 and ACM UMAP 2022, Virtual, Online, Spain, 28/06/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3511095.3536361

From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic Social Annotation in the Quest for Collective Sensemaking. / Tamari, Ronen; Friedman, Daniel; Fischer, William et al.
HT 2022: 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media - Co-located with ACM WebSci 2022 and ACM UMAP 2022. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2022. p. 236-239 (HT 2022: 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media - Co-located with ACM WebSci 2022 and ACM UMAP 2022).

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