Digital Cognitive Technologies: Epistemology and Knowledge Society

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 CLEMENT 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 Francois 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 Gregory BOURGUIN and Arnaud LEWANDOWSKI PART VII. TOWARDS RENEWED POLITICAL LIFE AND CITIZENSHIP 299 Chapter 19. Electronic Voting and Computer Security 301 Stephan 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 Gael GUEGUEN and Said YAMI Conclusion 389 Bernard REBER and Claire BROSSAUD Postscript 397 Roberto BUSA List of Authors 401 Index 405