How can our experiences be followed?

Several days ago i read somewhere that experiences influence our emotions. That is a direct alarm for me to summarize that all operations we are performing in our life, at least virtual one, play roles in emotions we are producing. Therefore I can conclude that those two notions, operations (participatory design methods, media processes, user actions - call them as you want) and emotions are connected notions. One can either follow the actions accompanied with emotions like it was done in Situation Modeling and Smart Context Retrieval with Semantic Web Technology and Conflict Resolution or differentiate between those as different actors of a community system (when presented like an actor network model).

Some scholars follow the experiences through ontologies that help to summarize semantics in an ontology object and highlight connections between different entries. The approach applied in PALADIN: A Pattern Based Approach to Knowledge Discovery in Digital Social Networks uses a pattern approach. One can say that patterns can be like ontology objects when those are defined by the semantics and relationships between patterns are specified. Although a higher level of abstaction(for ontologies are concepts) is lacking, it is a moot point. The hierarchy can be specified by relations. Patterns exceed onlologies by a relatively easy language. So that it is natural for a user to construct a semantic knowledge base for his needs.

Media operations

Since i finished my master thesis a lot of questions left opened for me. One of those is the observation of media operations, somebody may call it events, others participatory design methods.

I defined the following table:



according to media centric theory of learning based on the
"The Knowledge-Creating company:How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation" from Nonaka and Takeuchi
and
"Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity" from Wenger.

The theory was utilized in "Do you know a similar project I can learn from?" Self-monitoring of Communities of Practice in the Cultural Sciences by Klamma, Spaniol and Jarke

The engaged actors are those presented on the model:


Today I find very interesting paper in the same direction. The scholars tries to discover communities based on mutual awareness: Blog Community Discovery and Evolution Based on Mutual Awareness Expansion by Lin, Sundaram, Chi, Tatemura and Tseng. I found a minor number of resources to the topic thus each new paper is a treasury.