Lévy’s collective intelligence connects differentiated knowledge through recognition, communication, and coordination. A useful system makes expertise discoverable, preserves provenance and disagreement, and separates contribution from verification and synthesis. Platforms, activity, or consensus alone do not demonstrate capability, and practical applications require evaluation against the collective task.
- FamilyModel
- CategoryConcepts & Constructs
- DomainGroups & Decisions
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Concepts & Constructs
Delimits an entity, property, relation or condition relevant to understanding communication. Its principal contribution is to clarify what something means, which features constitute it, and how to recognize or distinguish it.