Abstract

SOBERON MAINERO, LETICIA. Connective Intelligence within the Latin America's Church Web Network (RIIAL). Signo pensam. [online]. 2009, vol.28, n.54, pp.300-316. ISSN 0120-4823.

This work assumes that digital networks enhance the so called connective intelligence and that therefore they could become a possible and appropriate way for the Church to better face the challenges opened by the new culture also called the information society. The goal of this work is to explore the concept of connective intelligence and make it operative in an ecclesiastical context (emphasizing its advantages vis-à-vis the pastoral service) and offer some tools for its implementation. Our methodology is inspired in the new cyberspace or network ethnography, taken from Philip Howard's work "Network ethnography and the hypermedia organization: new media, new organizations, new methods". (New Media & Society, London 2002). As suggested by Howard, we used the Social Network Analysis to obtain the graphs of our networks, a method which has been recently developed in Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalonian academic milieus.

Keywords : Connective intelligence; knowledge networks; connectivity; Catholic networks; cultural studies.

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