The evolutionary dynamics of discursive knowledge
Commentary: Diana Lucio Arias,
Departamento de Ciencia de la Información
Facultad de Comunicación y Lenguaje
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
diana.lucioa@javeriana.edu.co
“…Can this model of interacting communications and the self-organization of meaning be made compatible with Shannon’s information theory as a measurement theory?...”�
“…How the processing of information and meaning are related? ...”
(Leydesdorff, 2021, p.61)
“…bridge the gap between Luhmann’s sociological focus on meaning processing and Shannon’s focus on information processing by decomposing the
problem using Simon’s (1973a) model of complex systems that are differentiated both vertically and horizontally…”
(Leydesdorff, 2021, p.61)
Reflexivity on scientific discourse: operation of the three levels
Lucio-Arias &Leydesdorff, The Dynamics of Exchanges and References among Scientific Texts, and the Autopoiesis of Discursive Knowledge. Journal of Informetrics, 3(3), 261-271
Mechanisms of growth and change: Evolution
Frenken & Leydesdorff. (2000). Scaling Trajectories in Civil Aircraft (1913-1970). Research Policy, 29(3), 331-348.
A publication (as a textual manifestation of discursive scientific knowledge) is
Intellectual feedback and integration into the non-linear dynamics of cognitive development.
Positioned in a network in terms of its citation relations with other texts
Positioned as an event in relation to other publications along the time axis
Re-positioned when the knowledge content of the publication is interpreted, and incorporated in further publications
Lucio-Arias, D., & Leydesdorff, L. (2008). Main-path analysis and path-dependent transitions in HistCite™-based historiograms. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(12), 1948-1962
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Cited references:
Years
variation
codification
Interacting sources of variance: synergy at the systems level
¿redundancy?
Lucio-Arias, D., & Leydesdorff, L. (2009). An Indicator of Research Front Activity: Measuring Intellectual Organization as Uncertainty Reduction in Document Sets. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60 (12), 2488-2499