Digital Cognitive Technologies: Epistemology and the Knowledge Economy

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 collective activity (socio-informatics).Content: Chapter 1 Elements for a Digital Historiography (pages 1–21): Andrea IacovellaChapter 2 “In Search of Real Time” or Man Facing the Desire and Duty of Speed (pages 23–36): Luc Bonneville and Sylvie GrosjeanChapter 3 Narrativity Against Temporality: A Computational Model for Story Processing (pages 37–56): Eddie SoulierChapter 4 Are Virtual Maps Used for Orientation? (pages 57–70): Alain MilonChapter 5 Geography of the Information Society (pages 71–87): Henry Bakis and Philippe VidalChapter 6 Mapping Public Web Space with the Issuecrawler (pages 89–99): Richard RogersChapter 7 Metrology of Internet Networks (pages 101–117): Nicolas Larrieu and Philippe OwezarskiChapter 8 Online Social Networks: A Research Object for Computer Science and Social Sciences (pages 119–136): Dominique Cardon and Christophe PrieurChapter 9 Analysis of Heterogenous Networks: The ReseauLu Project (pages 137–152): Alberto Cambrosio, Pascal Cottereau, Stefan Popowycz, Andrei Mogoutov and Tania VichnevskaiaChapter 10 Hypertext, an Intellectual Technology in the Era of Complexity (pages 153–167): Jean ClementChapter 11 A Brief History of Software Resources for Qualitative Analysis (pages 169–186): Christophe LejeuneChapter 12 Sea Peoples, Island Folk: Hypertext and Societies without Writing (pages 187–201): Pierre MarandaChapter 13 Semantic Web and Ontologies (pages 203–218): Philippe LaubletChapter 14 Interrelations between Types of Analysis and Types of Interpretation (pages 219–230): Karl M. Van MeterChapter 15 Pluralism and Plurality of Interpretations (pages 231–243): Francois Daoust and Jules DuchastelChapter 16 A Communicational and Documentary Theory of ICT (pages 245–264): Manuel ZackladChapter 17 Knowledge Distributed by ICT: How do Communication Networks Modify Epistemic Networks? (pages 265–281): Bernard ConeinChapter 18 Towards New Links between HSS and Computer Science: The CoolDev Project (pages 283–297): Gregory Bourguin and Arnaud LewandowskiChapter 19 Electronic Voting and Computer Security (pages 299–316): Stephan BrunessauxChapter 20 Politicization of Socio?Technical Spaces of Collective Cognition: The Practice of Public Wikis (pages 317–329): Serge Proulx and Anne GoldenbergChapter 21 Liaising Using a Multi?Agent System (pages 331–341): Maxime MorgeChapter 22 The Interdisciplinary Dialog of Social Informatics (pages 343–356): William TurnerChapter 23 Limitations of Computerization of Sciences of Man and Society (pages 357–371): Thierry FoucartChapter 24 The Internet in the Process of Data Collection and Dissemination (pages 373–388): Gael Gueguen and Said Yami