Semantics of Techno-Social Spaces
Sergey Maruev, Dmitry Stefanovskyi, Alexander Troussov · Advances in linguistics and communication studies · 2015
Nowadays, most of the digital content is generated within techno-social systems like Facebook or Twitter where people are connected to other people and to artefacts such as documents and concepts. These networks provide rich context for understanding the role of particular nodes. It is widely agreed that one of the most important principles in the philosophy of language is Frege's context principle, which states that words have meaning only in the context of a sentence. This chapter puts forward the hypothesis that semantics of the content of techno-social systems should be also analysed in the context of the whole system. The hypothesis is substantiated by the introduction of a method for formal modelling and mining of techno-social systems and is corroborated by a discussion on the nature of meaning in philosophy. In addition we provide an overview of recent trends in knowledge production and management within the context of our hypothesis.