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Knowledge governance, as a key topic in knowledge management, has garnered significant attention over the past two decades. Given the increasing importance of knowledge as a strategic resource in organizations, numerous studies have been conducted in this area. However, the dispersion and diversity in the approaches and results of these studies highlight the necessity for a comprehensive and systematic analysis and classification of them. This research aims to provide a systematic and comprehensive review of existing studies in the field of knowledge governance, identifying trends, challenges, and gaps. It employs a meta-synthesis research method to analyze qualitative studies. Relevant data has been gathered from various databases, particularly through the Google Scholar search engine, and categorized after evaluating quality and alignment with research questions. These categories include three main axes: the nature of research, level of governance, and the domain of knowledge governance. The findings indicate that studies in this area exhibit high diversity in terms of type, scope, and subject, which aids researchers in analyzing and designing knowledge governance models from different perspectives. Furthermore, the research suggests that a comprehensive framework should be developed to guide future research in this field, and the proposed tree structure for classifying studies serves as an effective tool for visually displaying the relationships among different sections and enabling a more precise analysis of them.

The lexical items approved by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature (hereafter called the Academy) lack a proper tree or thesaurus structure despite being originally selected in clusters from foreign languages. A semantic network viewpoint not only helps detect easily the gaps among the Persian equivalents selected for foreign words but also delineates the semantic relations among the equivalents provided. The semantic network approach provides lexicologists with a new tool for selecting or coining Persian equivalents for foreign words and organizing them into relevant structures. In this regard, a thesaurus structure seems to allow for the lexical items approved by the Academy to be organized in a systematic and structured manner. Webbased publication of such items structured within a conceptual network and their subsequent retrieval and analysis can in no way be compared with any of the existing traditional practices. The Chemistry Thesaurus compiled based on the chemistry terms approved by the Academy has not only created a small corpus in a specialized field but will also open new avenues to the generation of a large corpus of all the lexical items approved by the Academy. It is the objective of the present article to propose a model that employs the semantic network theory for both the initial selection of foreign words and the subsequent organization of the Persian equivalents formed in a thesaurus format.

On the basis of the viewpoints of Marshall McLuhan, Søren Kierkegaard, Gilles Deleuze, Manuel Castells, Hubert Dreyfus and other philosophers and sociologists and scientists of information and communication studies, a conceptual model based on three types of historical structures of the mind and the description of features of each and the role of modern network technologies in changing the nature of human mind is presented. This model may be used in futuristic studies for understanding the effects of the networking space in the generalism of users and the reduction of individualistic tendencies among them.Design/Methodology/ Approach: On the basis of the viewpoints of the abovementioned experts, a number of indicators were defined for generalism and individuality. Based on these indicators, some questions were extracted for evaluating the viewpoints. The final questionnaire assessed the history, quantity and quality of the presence of the study population in the internet. It also evaluated their individualistic and generalistic tendencies based on Likert scale. The amount of exposure to the World Wide Web affects the increase of generalism against individualism. However, this affect does not show a considerable intensity. Several factors affect the generalism and individualism of individuals and the development of a networking environment is one of the most important of them. In addition to the effects that the content of these networks have, a portion of this effect is due to the fundamental structure and nature of networks. Modern information networks endorse the famous theory of McLuhan that "The medium is the message".