Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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).