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1 online resource (440 pages) |
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ISTE |
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ISTE
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| Contents |
Cover; Digital Cognitive Technologies; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; PART I. CAN ICT TELL HISTORY?; Chapter 1. Elements for a Digital Historiography; 1.1. Introduction; 1.1.1. Epistemological mutations of historiography; 1.1.2. History and documentation; 1.2. Historiography facing digital document; 1.2.1. The digital document; 1.2.2. Consequences related to a traditional document; 1.2.3. Consequences on historiography; 1.3. ICTS contributions to historiography methods; 1.3.1. Nomenclature and historical semantics; 1.3.2. The initiatives of formalisms |
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1.3.3. A semiotics of the documentary object1.4. Conclusion; 1.5. Bibliography; Chapter 2. "In Search of Real Time" or Man Facing the Desire and Duty of Speed.; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Rate, speed and ICT: emergence of a new social temporality; 2.3. Speed: stigma of a new socio-economic and socio-cultural reality; 2.3.1. Emergence of a "speed economy"; 2.3.2. Ambivalence of "hypermodern Man"; 2.4. Conclusion; 2.5. Bibliography; Chapter 3. Narrativity Against Temporality: a Computational Model for Story Processing; 3.1. Background: problems of temporality representation in social sciences |
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3.2. A theoretical framework for processing temporality3.2.1. Narrative theories of action; 3.2.2. Narrative explanation of social processes; 3.2.3. Social narrative ontology; 3.3. A computational model for story processing; 3.3.1. Hyperstoria; 3.3.2. Ontostoria; 3.3.3. Sum It Up; 3.3.4. MemorExpert; 3.4. Conclusion; 3.5. Bibliography; PART II. HOW CAN WE LOCATE OURSELVES WITHIN ICT?; Chapter 4. Are Virtual Maps used for Orientation?; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Orientation context; 4.3. The flat sphere; 4.4. Orientating; 4.5. Nature of the map; 4.6. The virtual map; 4.7. Map territory |
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4.8. Program of the map4.9. Map instruction; 4.10. Bibliography; Chapter 5. Geography of the Information Society; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Technological determinism of the facts; 5.2.1. Avoidance of travel and space contraction: two ideas promoted by policy makers and industrials; 5.2.2. The research world: a frank rebuttal; 5.3. From the "end of geography" to the "territorialization of ICT"; 5.3.1. The appropriation of ICT by urban participants; 5.3.2. ICT, tools of mobility and proximity; 5.3.3. ICT, instruments of competition of territories |
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5.4. The trivialization of ICT in territories in industrialized countries5.4.1. The geographical space of the 21st Century; 5.4.2. An integrated approach between space and ICT; 5.4.3. A more complex geographical and social space; 5.5. Conclusion; 5.6. Bibliography; Chapter 6. Mapping Public Web Space with the Issuecrawler; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. The death of cyberspace; 6.3. Tethering websites in hyperspace through inlinks; 6.4. The depluralization of the Web; 6.5. The Web as (issue) network space; 6.6. Conclusion; 6.7. Bibliography; PART III. ICT: A WORLD OF NETWORKS? |
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Chapter 7. Metrology of Internet Networks |
| 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 collectiv |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Social sciences -- Information services.
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Social sciences -- Data processing.
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Communication in the social sciences.
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Communication in the social sciences
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Social sciences -- Data processing
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Social sciences -- Information services
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Reber, Barnard
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| ISBN |
9780470394236 |
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0470394234 |
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