Mini:Websensibility

The item Websensibility created by Jean-Pol Martin means a cognitive and emotional sensibility for interdependence and linkings within the world and all its constituents human being, regions, countries, continents). Websensibility enables to feel the willingness of other people to communicate and to network productively (in order to construct knowledge for example). Websensiblity adverts to

• "real" social networks (like classmates or collaborators in a company) or to
• virtual networks like onlinecommunities, virtual project-colleagues and the internet-users at large

Websensibility is a condition for constructing knowledge collectively

[edit] Constituents of Websensibility

• To be aware that one is bearer of resources
• To be aware that the own set of resources can be enhanced through communication
• Ability to identify potentials of team-mates and to make this potentials useful to the group.
• Ability to lead the transformation of information to knowledge in a group.
• Ability to collect extern resources.
• Ability to identify willingness of other people to act.

[edit] Literature

• Albert-László Barabási: Linked. The new science of networks. Cambridge:Perseus Publishing. 2002
• Manuel Castells; Mireia Fernàndez-Ardèvol; Jack Linchuan Qiu; Araba Sey: Mobile communication and society - A global perspective. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2007