Why Do We Need Social Worlds While Talking about D-Knowledge Commons Ecosystem in Cyberspace?
Why Do We Need Social Worlds While Talking about D-Knowledge Commons Ecosystem in Cyberspace?

Summary/Abstract: This paper is based on the application of the “Social World’s” theory created by Shibutani to the worlds of knowledge society, cyberspace, d-Knowledge Commons Ecosystem.1 Knowledge society will be presented as the social world and cyberspace as the sub-social world with the d-Knowledge Commons Ecosystem as the subworld of cyberspace. This theory will open discussion about activity, boundaries, arenas and values of each social world/sub-worlds. However, the main intention of this paper is an introduction to a discussion about the sub-world of d-Knowledge Commons Ecosystem as an example of one of the most striking sub-worlds within cyberspace trying to answer the question: why do we need social worlds while talking about d-Knowledge Commons Ecosystem? This paper is to be divided into five parts: 1. Activity, 2. Boundaries, 3. Arena, 4. Values, 5. Conclusion.

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