Social information processing
The NEW weADAPT – now at a screen near you!
This article describes the new features of weADAPT.
Understanding Needs, Meeting Demands: A user-oriented analysis of online knowledge brokering platforms for climate change and development
This paper examines the state of alignment between climate knowledge brokering platforms and the information-seeking and knowledge-sharing behaviour of users of online climate change information.
SNA review: A summary
This article, written by weADAPT authors, reviews several recent papers on quantitative social network analysis (SNA) in relation to adaptive governance, adaptive capacity and resilience.
A review of applications of Social Network Analysis
This article reviews the applications of Social Network Analysis in eight diverse studies; details of the methods, questions asked, findings and tools used are given.
Describing the characteristics of a social network for conducting mapping exercises
Social network mapping is used to help identify stakeholders in climate adaptation planning.
Social Learning in Organisations
This article describes a number of barriers to learning in organisations that may occur.
What is Social Learning?
'Social' learning is thought to occur through the sharing of knowledge between individuals, groups and organisations in society through interactions, particularly in novel environments and situations where new opportunities and spaces of possibility can be explored.
Social Network Analysis
Social network analysis [SNA] is the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows of information between people, groups and organizations, and provides both a visual and a mathematical analysis.
Social learning
Social learning develops the actors' ability to improvise; it requires investment in relationships and trust building, respect for difference and appreciation of other ways of seeing the world.