Diskursive Konstituierung von Wissen in onlinebasierten Social Media Plattformen
Discursive Knowledge Creation in Online Social Media Platforms

Summary/Abstract: The main issue discussed in the article is the generation, transfer and management of knowledge in the social media environment (Web 2.0). The author assumes that the most important thing of the networked society in relation to Web 2.0, which allows unlimited reciprocal communication, is the inclusion of the so called networked intelligence. Intelligence defined in this way manifests itself in different fields (e.g. education, media or politics) and is formed as a total of all online contributions made by ‘citizens’ of the networked society. Any changes in learning processes, in politics or economy are subjected to the paramount principle of collaborative action. In this way, relatively loose specific subject- or interests-oriented social networks come into being, and their members may, for instance, work on collaborative projects (e.g. wikis), try to solve specific problems together (e.g. on blogs or discussion forums), or contribute the creation of common digital knowledge resources in some other way. The presented model of discursive knowledge creation comprises both the construction of knowledge, its argumentative negotiation and its distribution (content sharing) plus possibly the storage of information in a digital form. In addition, the article presents the role of textual and multimedia elements in the process of knowledge creation.

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