{
  "title": "StigmergicAnnotation",
  "domain": "Cognitive Security",
  "type": "Paper",
  "creators": [
    {
      "name": "Ronen Tamari"
    },
    {
      "name": "Daniel A. Friedman"
    },
    {
      "name": "William Fischer"
    },
    {
      "name": "Lauren Hebert"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dafna Shahaf"
    }
  ],
  "description": "We argue that centralized platforms are a main source of epistemic pollution online, and propose Open Source Attention—a socio-technical framework for freeing human attention from platform control thr...",
  "abstract": "We argue that centralized platforms are a main source of epistemic pollution online, and propose Open Source Attention—a socio-technical framework for freeing human attention from platform control through a decentralized ecosystem for creating, storing, and querying stigmergic markers: the digital traces of human attention. We frame social annotation as a collective sensemaking tool that can restore epistemic health to online environments.",
  "keywords": [
    "stigmergic annotation",
    "open source attention",
    "collective sensemaking",
    "epistemic pollution",
    "decentralized platforms",
    "social annotation",
    "digital attention"
  ],
  "methods": [
    {
      "name": "Narrative analysis",
      "description": "Applied narrative analysis approach"
    },
    {
      "name": "Trust and integrity modeling",
      "description": "Applied trust and integrity modeling approach"
    }
  ],
  "key_findings": [
    "We argue that centralized platforms are a main source of epistemic pollution online, and propose Open Source Attention—a socio-technical framework for freeing human attention from platform control thr"
  ],
  "related_papers": [
    "2020_EmergentTeams",
    "2020_FacilitatorsCatechism",
    "2020_GreatPreset"
  ],
  "checked_at": "2026-07-01T20:50:01Z"
}