** Apologies for Cross-Posting **
CALL FOR PAPERS on Distributed Cognition
for
Second special issue in the series Cognition and Technology
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~id/technology.html
Editors: Stevan Harnad and Itiel Dror
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~id/technologySI2.html
Deadline: June 30, 2005
Cognition used to be thought of as largely individual-based, but
with the advent of the web and other new technologies it is becoming
clear that cognition can also be distributed across different agents,
both human and virtual. Not only has the web provided the medium
for distributed communication, collaboration, and coding on a scale
undreamt of a few decades ago, but it has added autonomous software
processes to the interaction, as agents that hold their own alongside
the human ones.
This special issue will be dedicated to examining both of these
roles of technology: (1) as providing the medium and means (for
facilitating human interactive cognition) and (2) as providing some
of the messengers and messages (software agents contributing to the
interaction). We are calling for reports on actual and potential ways
the web and cognate technologies transform how people read, write,
think, teach, learn, and otherwise gather, process, and exchange
information, including scientific and scholarly information and
the origins and evolution of existing and new forms of language
and discourse. Of particular interest for this special issue are
technologically induced transformations that induce substantive
changes in any aspect of cognition itself.
Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2005
Publication: Summer 2006
Send submissions jointly to:
harnad at uqam.ca
Stevan Harnad
Chaire de Recherche du Canada
Centre de Neuroscience de la Cognition
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3P8
Canada
and
id at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Itiel Dror
Psychology
Southampton University
Southampton SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom
