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

EDF R&D, Laboratory of Design for Cognition, 1 avenue du Général de Gaulle, 92141 Clamart, France; EHESS, 54 Bd. Raspail, 75006 Paris, France, lahlou{at}ehess.fr

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.

Key Words: Automation • Change • Cognition • Design • Digital projection • Information and communication technologies • Social impacts

Social Science Information, Vol. 47, No. 3, 227-251 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0539018408092572


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