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The Social Accumulator as a Concept to Manage Social Energy in the Age of Digital Transformation

Authors:
Karsten Böhm
Jürgen Sammet
Joel Schmidt

Keywords: Digital Transformation; Social Interaction; Social Energy; Higher Education; Digital Interaction; CSCW; Communication; Collaboration

Abstract:
The increasing intensity of digital supported interaction and communication stimulated by the COVID19 pandemic over a period of roughly two years has changed the perception and experiences with those new forms of interaction by human actors. While not being completely new, the massive use of the technologies made a difference for the users that lead to different socio-technical effects. As a result, the concept of the Social Accumulator (SOAC) is introduced in this paper and related to known concepts like Social Energy. It builds on the experiences from the intensified digital interactions both in academia and business life and should serve as an explanation model for the effects of digital interaction that is easy to understand and to apply. The SOAC should help to understand the processes of Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Sharing when being driven by digital tools, which becomes increasingly important in a world that transforms education and businesses towards a highly digitized world.

Pages: 91 to 102

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2023. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 30, 2023

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ISSN: 1942-261x