abstract: This experiment uses the Community of Knowledge framework to better understand how jurors interpret new information (Sloman & Rabb, 2016). Participants learned of an ostensibly new scientific finding that was claimed to either be well-understood or not understood by experts. Despite including no additional information, expert understanding led participants to believe that they personally understood the phenomenon, with expert understanding acting as a cue for trustworthiness and believability. This effect was particularly pronounced with low-quality sources. These results are discussed in the context of how information is used by jurors in court, and the implications of the “Community of Knowledge” effect being used by expert witnesses. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Psychology 2018

My master’s thesis is focused on knowledge management. The main point is one of the most important topics now, the knowledge and its management. The introduction of my master’s thesis provides basic definitions from the field of knowledge management, namely data, information and knowledge, and gives definitions of most important factors that influences knowledge management. Thesis gives a survey of current development in information systems and products supporting knowledge management.

This study is about the perceptions, feelings, attitudes and knowledge of people towards government with regard to service delivery and participation with communities in order to accelerate social development. Government's enthusiasm to get things done often results in development not occurring at all. Entering into balanced partnerships with the private sector and communities needs to be explored a lot deeper. It must be borne in mind that people's attitudes, perceptions and feelings may differ according to the different strata of government. The study was undertaken to ascertain how people feel and thereby assess how effective government has been in the past seven years. This in turn will enable government to focus its efforts in the right direction. The study took into account various theoretical issues regarding the role of the state in developing a nation, the importance of knowledge and the management thereof as well as the changing face of development over the years. The shift in paradigm of the study of development is discussed as a matter of importance with structural adjustment programmes often resulting in slowed development and negative economic growth. Often schools of thought in development try to impose their thinking, but what this paper proposes is that schools of thought are not of importance here but quality of life in terms of social development and empowerment are. The study was conducted by means of three focus groups whereby each focus group had different characteristics. After the focus groups were conducted coding of the information gathered took place so as to facilitate analysis and interpretation. The study found that people are generally happy with the efforts of national government but that the delivery of service by regional and local government does not meet their expectations. It is also clear that the private and NGO sector seem to concentrate on the big urban townships whilst ignoring the plight of rural areas. The road ahead seems to indicate that consultation must take place and be improved with the communities as well as with big business who wish to develop their social responsibility programmes. It is recommended that local government be improved in terms of its effectiveness and responsiveness to its communities. Private sector must also re-assess its role in social development in the communities of its employees. The importance of this is then that government and private sector can work together in partnership in order to accelerate the pace of development. The credibility of government amongst the people as well as the reinforcement of democracy is at stake and the development of impoverished areas by ways of innovative strategies can only benefit all the peoples of our country. / Thesis (MA (Sociology))--University of Pretoria, 2004. / Sociology / unrestricted

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Aus Punkt 1. Die Deutsch-Chinesische Technische Fakultät: "Seit Mitte der 90er Jahre besteht zwischen der Universität Paderborn und der Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST) eine rege Kooperation. Qingdao, übersetzt „Grüne Insel“, liegt im Osten Chinas am Gelben Meer, gut eine Flugstunde von Peking entfernt.1 Im sowohl touristisch als auch industriell attraktiven Großraum Qingdao leben derzeit ca. 7 Millionen Einwohner. Die stark expandierende QUST besitzt ca. 20.000 Studierende in meist natur- und ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Fächern."

Sowohl für Wissenswikis als auch Intranetwikis sind folgende Leitfragen zu klären: Wie und wer definiert die Inhaltsstruktur für das Enterprise Wiki? Wie kann der Nutzer selbst einen Überblick behalten und sicherstellen, dass die relevanten Informationen ankommen? Die Inhalte eines Wikis sind nicht unstrukturiert! Die Anwender bilden eine gewisse Struktur über Schlagworte und Seitenhierarchien. Zusätzlich bringt eine Gliederung in Wiki-Bereichen die notwendige Erststruktur und die erstellte Inhaltsübersichten die notwendige Transparenz.

Gruppenbildung gilt gemeinhin als soziales Phänomen. Doch mit der Evolution sozialer Software im Internet und dem einhergehenden reziproken Interaktionismus von Individuen in Online-Communities werden Kollaborationsstrukturen und Verhaltensmuster innerhalb virtueller Wissensräume sichtbarer denn je. Wie entsteht nun Kollaboration? Und welche Formen der Kollaboration gibt es? Welche Einflussfaktoren sind im Aufbau und Wachstum digitaler Wissensnetzwerke ausschlaggebend, um erfolgreich Information und Wissen verteilen zu können? Diese Fallstudie zeigt erste Einblicke in die Organisationsstruktur virtueller Wissensgemeinschaften anhand der Untersuchung des Wissen- und Lernportals OPAL. Dabei werden Theorien und Modelle aus den Handlungsfeldern der Kommunikationsund Bildungsforschung zu Grunde gelegt und mit dem soziologischen Paradigma der sozialen Netzwerktheorie verbunden.