Organising some thoughts around ambiguity

It's now over 14 years since I published Digital literacy, digital natives, and the continuum of ambiguity with my thesis supervisor. My interest in the topic was the result of chancing upon the book Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson during a time that I was particularly stuck with my doctoral work.

Not only did reading and reflecting on that work help 'unstick' me, it set me on a journey of thinking about different types of ambiguity as a way to navigate my life and work. More recently I've been wanting to branch out from simply applying my continuum of ambiguity to various situations.

This desire has coincided with me experimenting again with Are.na, which is the kind of social networking community and research platform that I wanted to create for educators with MoodleNet. So I've been collecting examples of work relating to ambiguity via a dedicated channel.

Needing to make some kind of sense of all of this, I've been using the same approach that I took with my thesis: an online mindmap. It's very much a work in progress, but essentially I'm trying to categorise different areas of enquiry. That's what the screenshot is of at the top of this post, which you can access here.

I'll probably be sharing updates over at ambiguiti.es, my occasional blog on the subject. So subscribe to the RSS feed if that's your kind of thing...