Cognitive technologies, social science and the three-layered leopardskin of change

Bibliographic Data

ID3067032
AuthorsSaadi Lahlou (0000-0001-8114-7271, EDF R&D, Laboratory of Design for Cognition, 1 avenue du Général de Gaulle, 92141 Clamart, France; EHESS, 54 Bd. Raspail, 75006 Paris, France, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume47
Issue3
Pages227-251
Publication date2008-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science Information (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0539018408092572
OpenAlexW2130695207
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited10

The current digitization of society brings with it a series of new issues that challenge social science. This article describes the mechanism of digital projection (creation of a digital layer mirroring the physical world) by which society digitizes. In the three-layered leopardskin model of change described here (physical layer, representations and practice, institutions), the physical layer (here, information technology) is changing much faster than the two other layers: representations and institutions. This situation calls for a new stand from social research in these evolutions, a stand which is illustrated by the collection of articles that makes up this issue. A closer link to technology and a different relationship with stakeholders seem to emerge as a new action-research approach in the field

Data science · Digitization · Epistemology · Mirroring · Sociology · Telecommunications · Communication · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Mathematics

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