Kicking off the Decentralised Web
KMi researchers are among the leaders of a new group of academics, aDecentWeb, which aims to create a web where individuals and organisations remain in control....Read more
Anna De Liddo
Senior Research Fellow
Anna De Liddo
Senior Research Fellow
My research focuses on the socio-technical factors influencing the design and uptake of Collective Intelligence infrastructures. These are online environments which seek to improve collective awareness of the changing environment, and collective capacity to make the best use of expertise to problem solve, and adapt appropriately. I have particular interests in knowledge construction through discourse, and the role of technology in scaffolding dialogue and argumentation in contested domains, in which there is more than one point of view. The approaches I work with are network-centric, modelling and visualizing ideas and arguments as networks of nodes which can be analysed for topographical and semantic patterns.
As background, I am an Urban Planner and Designer; I took a BSc in Civil Engineering, a MSc in Transport Planning at Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, and a MSc in Environmental Policy and Management at Institut National des Sience Appliquees in Lyon (France). I gained my PhD in Urban and Environmental Planning at Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, investigating ICT for Participatory Planning and Deliberation. In this respect I am interested in investigating tools to support knowledge representation, structuring and management, particularly with regards to collaborative decision-making processes in Environmental and Urban Planning domain.
KMi, the first 25 years
At the 25th Anniversary KMi Festival we invited staff from across the OU campus to come and find out how our latest knowledge and media technologies are impacting education, science, and cities....Read more
Athena Swan Award Success!
The Knowledge Media Institute is delighted to be among the successful applicants announced by The Equality Challenge Unit for the November 2017 award round....Read more
KMi PhD Student success in winning HEIF funding
The Augmented Reality in Activism (ARIA) Project launched this week at KMi with the aim of improving inclusive participation in social protest and campaigning....Read more
DebateHub
Debate Hub is a tool for online communities to collectively organize and progress good ideas forward...Read more
LiteMap
LiteMap is a Web tool for mapping out visually the content of online debates across different forums and Websites....Read more
Election Debate Visualization
The EDV Project will provide radically new ways for the public to replay the televised debates from the next UK general election...Read more
Okada, A. and De Liddo, A. (2019) LiteMap - Mapeamento do conhecimento
Grunewald, P, Roberts, S, Hedges, M, Buchana, P and De Liddo, A. (2019) Collective Consciousness: What could this mean and how do we research and design (with) it?, 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Transforming Communities, Vienna, Austria
Ullmann, T, De Liddo, A. and Bachler, M. (2019) A Visualisation Dashboard for Contested Collective Intelligence. Learning Analytics to Improve Sensemaking of Group Discussion, A Visualisation Dashboard for Contested Collective Intelligence. Learning Analytics to Improve Sensemaking of Group Discussion, 22, pp. 41-80
Schuler, D, De Liddo, A., Smith, J and Cindio, F (2018) Collective intelligence for the common good: cultivating the seeds for an intentional collaborative enterprise, Collective intelligence for the common good: cultivating the seeds for an intentional collaborative enterprise, 33, pp. 1-13
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Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
United Kingdom
