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Examples Of Tacit Knowledge As Trauma

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Good day, everybody! The topic of this presentation is ‘Tacit Knowledge as Trauma’ where we would be discussing about tacit knowledge, experience and assemblages of communication technology.
The focus would be on:
• Tacit knowledge in communication technology and how is it a trauma,
• Inverse of tacit knowledge in form of;
 trolling,
 fraud,
 noise,
 viruses
• How Tacit Knowledge can be transformed into useful knowledge

Slide 2: Tacit Knowledge vs. Explicit Knowledge
Tacit knowledge collects all those things that we know how to do but perhaps do not know how to explain (at least symbolically). The term “tacit knowledge” comes to us courtesy of Michael Polyani, a chemical engineer turned philosopher of science. Tacit knowledge is messy, difficult to study, regarded as being of negligible epistemic worth.
This concept can be understood in comparison to explicit knowledge, demonstrated in form of Iceberg Model.

Slide 3: Tacit Knowledge as Trauma
In communication technology, tacit knowledge often becomes a trauma as the available information cannot be transformed into explicit knowledge easily, for which skilled persons are required that work on complex processes, such as socialization, externalization, internalization, and combination. Since it is something which cannot be conveyed easily, its sharing is usually very limited. …show more content…

Often, people fail to communicate their knowledge that results in major issues. The relationship of tacit knowledge with communication technology has legal place in constitutions of many countries. Under s3 of the Fraud Act 2006 of United Kningdom, a person commits fraud if they dishonestly fail to disclose to another person information which they have a legal duty to disclose and if they intend, by failing to make the disclosure, to make a gain for themselves or another or to cause a loss to another, or to put another at risk of

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