Digital cognitive technologies [electronic resource] : epistemology and the knowledge economy / edited by Bernard Reber, Claire Brossaud.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reber, Bernard.

Brossaud, Claire.

Series:

ISTE

Standardized Title:

Humanités numériques. English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Information services.

Social sciences.

Social sciences--Data processing.

Communication in the social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : ISTE ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Digital Cognitive Technologies is an interdisciplinary book which assesses the socio-technical stakes of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), which are at the core of the ?Knowledge Society.? This book addresses eight major issues, analyzed by authors writing from a Human and Social Science and a Science and Technology perspective. The contributions seek to explore whether and how ICTs are changing our perception of time, space, social structures and networks, document writing and dissemination, sense-making and interpretation, cooperation, politics, and the dynamics of co

Contents:

Preface. The new manufacturing of SHS / Dominique BOULLIER

Introduction / Claire BROSSAUD & Bernard REBER

PART I. CAN ICT TELL HISTORY?: 1. Elements for a digital historiography / Andrea IACOVELLA

2. "In search of real time" or Man facing the desire and duty of speed / Luc BONNEVILLE & Sylvie GROSJEAN

3. Narrativity against temporality : computerized handling of histories / Eddie SOULIER

PART II. HOW TO LOCATE ONESELF IN THE AREA OF ICT?: 4. Are virtual maps used for orientation? / Alain MILON

5. From denial of the territory to geocyberspace: towards an integrated approach of the relationship between space and ICT / Henry BAKIS & Philippe VIDAL

6. Mapping of the public space on the Web using Issuecrawler / Richard ROGERS

PART III. ICT: A WORLD OF NETWORKS?: 7. Metrology of Internet networks / Nicolas LARRIEU & Philippe OWEZARSKI

8. Networks of relations on the Internet: a research object for information technology and social sciences / Dominique CARDON & Christophe PRIEUR

9. Analysis of heterogeneous networks: the ReseauLu project / Alberto CAMBROSIO, Pascal COTTEREAU, Stefan POPOWYCZ, Andrei MOGOUTOV & Tania VICHNEVSKAIA

PART IV. COMPUTERIZED PROCESSING OF SPEECHES AND

Hyperdocuments: what are the methodological consequences?: 10. hypertext, an intellectual technology in the era of complexity / Jean CLEMENT

11. Short history of software resources at the service of qualitative sociology / Christophe LEJEUNE

12. Peuples des eaux, gens des iles (Water people, islanders): hypertext and people without writing / Pierre MARANDA

PART V. ICT TO SUPPORT PLURALISM OF INTERPRETATIONS?: 13. Semantic Web and ontologies / Philippe LAUBLET

14. Interrelations between analysis types and interpretation types / Karl M. VAN METER

15. Pluralism and plurality of interpretations / Francois DAOUST & Jules DUCHASTEL

PART VI. DISTANCE COOPERATION?: 16. A communicational and documentary theory of ICT / Manuel ZACKLAD

17. Knowledge distributed by ICT: how do communication networks modify epistemic networks? / Bernard CONEIN

18. Towards new links between HSS and Computer Science: the CoolDev project / Gregory BOURGUIN & Arnaud LEWANDOWSKI

PART VII. TOWARDS RENEWED POLITICAL LIFE AND CITIZENSHIP: 19. Electronic voting and computer security / Stephan BRUNESSAUX

20. Politicization of sociotechnical spaces of collective cognition: the practice of public wikis / Serge PROULX & Anne GOLDENBERG

21. Liasing using a multi-agent system / Maxime MORGE

PART VIII. IS " SOCIO-INFORMATICS " POSSIBLE?: 22. Elements for socio-informatics / William TURNER

23. Limitations of computerization of sciences of man and society/ Thierry FOUCART

24. Internet in the process of data collection and dissemination / Gael GUEGUEN and Said YAMI

Conclusion / Bernard REBER and Claire BROSSAUD

Postscript. Computer science and humanities / Roberto BUSA

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-118-59976-4

0-470-39423-4

OCLC:

828303933