This volume of the 2014 Compendium lays out how the interdisciplinary nature of the MOCSIE Systems is being engineered to bring together presently fragmented activist organizations and community groups into a single cohesive purpose in a globalization process. Referenced herein as "glocalization," the idea is that progressive, but otherwise disparate narrative communities, might be brought together in purpose and spirit by germinating "sustaining institutions" to support them and unify their policy-change narratives.
Contributing authors to this volume will be required to contextualize their topic so that there are repeated references made to the idea of classical theories from each of the following disciplines could be adapted for use in a global virtual institution, where individuals might only ever meet as "avatars." As noted in the Volume 1 (Leavitt's Dissertation), the glue that would hold this institution together would be the cloud-resident, crowd-sourced "institutional memory."
| Part Title | Chapter Title | Section (hyperlink to sub-pages) | Preface
Part One:
Contributed Chapters on Policy Networks
| The Inter-disciplinary Nature of MOCSIE Systems
Pioneers and Classical Theory
Governing Narratives
Heterogeneous Policy Networks
The Missing Activists | The Four Volume Compendium
Policy Networks (Part 1)
Social Psychology and Sociology (Part 2)
Media Theory (Part 3)
Organization Development (Part 4)
Information Communication Technology (Part 5)
Author
Author
Hugh T. Miller, Ph.D.
Sandstrom and Carlsson
Mental Health in Generic Terms
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Part Two:
Social Psychology and Sociology in Narrative Communities
| Pioneers and Classical Theory
Worldview Threat
Double-loop Learning in Narrative Communities
Parasocial Contact Hypothesis in a Virtual Institution | Gordon Allport on Prejudice (four points)
Aronson et. al. (expansion to six points)
Terror Management Theory
Author
Problem Identification
Creating Emergent Narrative Communities
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Part Three:
Media Theory for Sustaining Institutions
| Pioneers and Classical Theory
Echo Chambers
Negotiated Reading
Social Media and Crowd Sourcing
Creating an Agenda | Eon Devereux
Author
"Push" Media became "Pull" Media
The Role of Sustaining Institutions
Emergent Narrative Communities
Protection for Interpretive Monopolies
When Facts Don't Matter
Parasocial Contact Hypothesis
Uploading the Institutional Memory
A Sustainable Virtual Institution
Downloading Narrative Threads
Compelling Stories
"Glocalization" of Governance
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Part Four:
Organization Development and Heterogeneous Policy Networks
| Pioneers and Classical Theory
Elite Theory and Hierarchy in Governance
Leadership
Learning Organizations
Virtual Institutions | Mary Parker Follett (Law of the Situation)
Frederick Thayer (End of Hierarchy!)
What Kind of Network? (Myrna-9thTAD)
Ali Farazmand, Ph.D.
Author
Social Entrepreneurs
Leading an Emergent Narrative Community
Leading a Sustaining Institution
Leading in a Heterogeneous Policy Network
Leading in a Horizontal Institution
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Part Five:
Institutional Memory as a Self-contained Information Communication Technology
| ICT in the 21st Century
The Global Domain as a Database
The Global Domain as an On-line Store
The Global Domain as a Business Incubator | Author
Author
The Database Custodians
Introduction to Volume IV
A "For Profit" Institution
A 19th Century Co-op in a 21st Century Environment
Introduction to Volume III
Artistic Creativity and Entrepreneurship
The Brick-and-Mortar Centers as Micro-lenders
From "Talented" to "Celebrity" |
Part Six:
Complexity Theory and the Germination of Emergent Narrative Communities
| The History of Complexity Theory
Design Theory and Crowd-sourced Media
Complexity in Emergent Narrative Communities
Complexity in Horizontal Networks
Interdisciplinary Connections | Dealing with Uncertainty
Incubating Direct Democracy
The Compulsion for Self Expression (Artistic Creativity)
Brick-and-Mortar Gateways to Virtual Institutions
Parasocial Contact Hypothesis Revisited
Contrasting Face-to-Face v. Virtual Institutions
Ideographs Revisited
Sustainability in the Face of Voluntary Association
The Risk of Fracturing
A Virtual University
The Role of the Database Custodians |
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