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Universal Anteriorities and Third-Phase Science

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In this chapter, we outline an exploratory research on the configuration of scientific knowledge and practices of digital social systems’ design in the context of innovation by co-design on the Internet. In order to guide this exploration through the jungle of fields, concepts, theories, methodologies and applications, our team mainly resorted to a text not well known by communication experts and social science practitioners but, according to us, that is fundamental for the understanding of the foundation of any scientific field, The Domain of Science Model, presented in 1986 by John Nelson Warfield, and that inspired many important researchers in the field of social systems design.

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    See the IDEO site (<www.ideo.com>).

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    Bela Banathy ’s works (1971, 1986, 1992, 1996; Banathy and Jenks 1991)

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Harvey, PL. (2017). Universal Anteriorities and Third-Phase Science. In: Community Informatics Design Applied to Digital Social Systems. Translational Systems Sciences, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65373-0_2

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