Overview
COGSEC's 2021 edited volume collects research outputs of the Narrative Information Management initiative, spanning information management across disciplines, digital rhetorical ecosystem analysis of image memes, knowledge management field synthesis, and an Active Inference Conflict model applied to conflict settings.
narrative information ecosystemscognitive securitysensemakingNarrative Information Managementdigital rhetoricknowledge managementActive Inferenceconflict modeling
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Findings and contributions
- Chapter I proposes Narrative Information Management (NIM) as a unifying term and framework for features of systems that support collective sensemaking.
- Chapter II's authors argue a rhetorical approach in large-scale analyses of multimedia artifacts can improve tools for categorizing, indexing, searching and modeling online discourse.
- Chapter III's bibliometric analysis found variable couplings and differential keyword prevalence, describing an 'archipelago' of partially connected areas around knowledge management.
- Chapter III reports only ~6% of decision support systems results co-occurred with keywords of the areas studied, though that literature's volume was comparable to knowledge management.
- Chapter IV's authors contend existing warfare models lack generalizability and interoperability, and propose the AIC model as tractable to simulate and able to incorporate empirical data.
Methods
- Cross-field survey of information challenges (finance, ancestry, genomics, etc.) — Chapter I synthesizes features of information systems from knowledge-management literature and examines ad hoc solutions in several applied fields.
- Rhetorical plus ecological analysis of image memes (DRE3 model) — Chapter II combines rhetorical studies and ecosystem concepts into a three-tier model for cataloguing and studying digital image memes.
- Exploratory bibliometric co-occurrence analysis via Google Scholar — Chapter III queried Google Scholar with combined search strings for knowledge-management-related fields, then quantified and visualized co-occurrence.
- Survey of conflict models and Active Inference Conflict (AIC) formalization — Chapter IV surveys prior war/conflict models (OODA, generations of warfare, Rumsfeld Matrix) and recasts conflict using Active Inference.
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Cordes, Richard J.; Friedman, Daniel A.. 2021. Narrative Information Ecosystems: Conflict and Trust on the Endless Frontier. COGSEC.org. URL: https://cogsec.org.
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