{"pk":29817,"title":"Chance-Discovery and Chance-Curation in Online Communities","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider chance-curation (the task of eas-ing chance-discovery activities for agents) as far as it concernsinformation sharing in online communities, understood as Vir-tual Cognitive Niches. We claim that Virtual Cognitive Nichesare digitally-encoded collaborative distributions of informa-tion and pieces of knowledge into the environment. The par-ticularity of Virtual Cognitive Niches, as socially biased net-works, is that they provide more ways for agents to interactthan to control the quality of the information they share and re-ceive. We contend that this social bias enables chance-curationstrategies that agents cannot foster in real-life communities. Inparticular, the chance curation strategies that we discuss are:redirecting the attention of agents to the virtual domain, foster-ing an only-docility-based relation with truth, and increasingthe social virtues of fallacies.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Chance-discovery; Chance-curation; Online Com-munities; Cognitive Niches; Affordances."}],"section":"Poster Session 2","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4407j9sd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Selene","middle_name":"","last_name":"Arfini","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pavia","department":""},{"first_name":"Lorenzo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Magnan","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pavia","department":""},{"first_name":"Tommaso","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bertolotti","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pavia","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-02T02:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29817/galley/19671/download/"}]}