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