Digital Cognitive Technologies (eBook)

Claire Brossard is the author of Digital Cognitive Technologies: Epistemology and Knowledge Society, published by Wiley. Bernard Reber is a philosopher and doctor in political research at Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, France, a CNRS research director and a member of the Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (Cevipof).

Foreword xv

Dominique BOULLIER

Introduction xxi

Claire BROSSAUD and Bernard REBER

PART I. CAN ICT TELL HISTORY? 1

Chapter 1. Elements for a Digital Historiography 3

Andrea IACOVELLA

Chapter 2. "In Search of Real Time" or Man Facing
the Desire and Duty of Speed 23

Luc BONNEVILLE and Sylvie GROSJEAN

Chapter 3. Narrativity Against Temporality: a Computational
Model for Story Processing 37

Eddie SOULIER

PART II. HOW CAN WE LOCATE OURSELVES WITHIN ICT? 57

Chapter 4. Are Virtual Maps used for Orientation?
59

Alain MILON

Chapter 5. Geography of the Information Society 71

Henry BAKIS and Philippe VIDAL

Chapter 6. Mapping Public Web Space with the Issuecrawler
89

Richard ROGERS

PART III. ICT: A WORLD OF NETWORKS? 101

Chapter 7. Metrology of Internet Networks 103

Nicolas LARRIEU and Philippe OWEZARSKI

Chapter 8. Online Social Networks: A Research Object for
Computer Science and Social Sciences 119

Dominique CARDON and Christophe PRIEUR

Chapter 9. Analysis of Heterogenous Networks: the ReseauLu
Project 137

Alberto CAMBROSIO, Pascal COTTEREAU, Stefan POPOWYCZ, Andrei
MOGOUTOV and Tania VICHNEVSKAIA

PART IV. COMPUTERIZED PROCESSING OF SPEECHES AND
HYPERDOCUMENTS: WHAT ARE THE METHODOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES?
153

Chapter 10. Hypertext, an Intellectual Technology in the Era
of Complexity 155

Jean CLÉMENT

Chapter 11. A Brief History of Software Resources for
Qualitative Analysis 169

Christophe LEJEUNE

Chapter 12. Sea Peoples, Island Folk: Hypertext and Societies
without Writing 187

Pierre MARANDA

PART V. HOW DO ICT SUPPORT PLURALISM OF INTERPRETATIONS?
203

Chapter 13. Semantic Web and Ontologies 205

Philippe LAUBLET

Chapter 14. Interrelations between Types of Analysis and
Types of Interpretation 219

Karl M. VAN METER

Chapter 15. Pluralism and Plurality of Interpretations
231

François DAOUST and Jules DUCHASTEL

PART VI. DISTANCE COOPERATION 245

Chapter 16. A Communicational and Documentary Theory of ICT
247

Manuel ZACKLAD

Chapter 17. Knowledge Distributed by ICT: How do
Communication Networks Modify Epistemic Networks? 265

Bernard CONEIN

Chapter 18. Towards New Links between HSS and Computer
Science: the CoolDev Project 283

Grégory BOURGUIN and Arnaud LEWANDOWSKI

PART VII. TOWARDS RENEWED POLITICAL LIFE AND CITIZENSHIP
299

Chapter 19. Electronic Voting and Computer Security
301

Stéphan BRUNESSAUX

Chapter 20. Politicization of Socio-technical Spaces of
Collective Cognition: the Practice of Public Wikis 317

Serge PROULX and Anne GOLDENBERG

Chapter 21. Liaising using a Multi-agent System 331

Maxime MORGE

PART VIII. IS "SOCIO-INFORMATICS" POSSIBLE?
343

Chapter 22. The Interdisciplinary Dialog of Social
Informatics 345

William TURNER

Chapter 23. Limitations of Computerization of Sciences of Man
and Society 357

Thierry FOUCART

Chapter 24. The Internet in the Process of Data Collection
and Dissemination 373

Gaël GUEGUEN and Saïd YAMI

Conclusion 389

Bernard REBER and Claire BROSSAUD

Postscript 397

Roberto BUSA

List of Authors 401

Index 405