ICPW 2010 PragWeb PanelWhat’s up with the Pragmatic Web?

Aldo de MoorCommunitySense

the Netherlands

WWW.COMMUNITYSENSE.NL

An evolving Web

� Web 1.0� Focus on information� “Digital brochures

� Web 2.0� Focus on content, communication , and co-creation� YouTube, Facebook� YouTube, Facebook

� Web 3.0� Focus on semantics, pragmatics , and collaboration� Wikigovernment

Pragmatic Web questions

� How are communicative actions with a pragmatic context performed via Web media?

� How can mutual understanding and commitments to action evolve in conversations?

Researching the Pragmatic Web

� From potential Web functionalities to actual use� Theories

� Language/Action Perspective� Language as coordination mechanism, focusing on

communicative interactions� Pragmatic Web� Pragmatic Web

� Impossible to describe data well enough for it to be used in arbitrary applications.(Singh, 2002)

� Moving the research focus from semantics to pragmatics, from representing to using meaning (De Moor, 2005)

� Applying appropriate web technologies to help improve the quality and legitimacy of collaborative, goal-oriented discourses in communities (Schoop et al, 2006)

� Build a socio-technical infrastructure that supports the negotiation of meaning and the coordination of action (Aakhus, 2007)

A socio-technical conversation context perspective

PragWeb publications

Source: Google Scholar, date 1-9-2010, all articles including term “Pragmatic Web”

Shaping the Pragmatic Web

- Community Informatics, LAP,

- Social psychology- Organization science- Negotiation science…

- HCI - CSCWInformatics, LAP, Org Semiotics- Web 2.0, Semantic Web

- Social media technologies- Networking infrastructure- …