Web search engines and distributed assessment systems Export

@article{citeulike:1841053, abstract = {I analyse the impact of search engines on our cognitive and epistemic practices. For that purpose, I describe the processes of assessment of documents on the Web as relying on distributed cognition. Search engines together with Web users, are distributed assessment systems whose task is to enable efficient allocation of cognitive resources of those who use search engines. Specifying the cognitive function of search engines within these distributed assessment systems allows interpreting anew the changes that have been caused by search engine technologies. I describe search engines as implementing reputation systems and point out the similarities with other reputation systems. I thus call attention to the continuity in the distributed cognitive processes that determine the allocation of cognitive resources for information gathering from others.}, author = {Heintz, Christophe}, citeulike-article-id = {1841053}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/jbp/pc/2006/00000014/00000002/art00014}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.14.2.15hei}, doi = {10.1075/pc.14.2.15hei}, journal = {Pragmatics \& Cognition}, keywords = {authority, reputation, search\_engines, web\_epistemology}, number = {2}, pages = {387--409}, posted-at = {2008-05-28 16:35:37}, priority = {0}, title = {Web search engines and distributed assessment systems}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.14.2.15hei}, volume = {14}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1841053 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1841053 N2 - I analyse the impact of search engines on our cognitive and epistemic practices. For that purpose, I describe the processes of assessment of documents on the Web as relying on distributed cognition. Search engines together with Web users, are distributed assessment systems whose task is to enable efficient allocation of cognitive resources of those who use search engines. Specifying the cognitive function of search engines within these distributed assessment systems allows interpreting anew the changes that have been caused by search engine technologies. I describe search engines as implementing reputation systems and point out the similarities with other reputation systems. I thus call attention to the continuity in the distributed cognitive processes that determine the allocation of cognitive resources for information gathering from others. IS - 2 JF - Pragmatics & Cognition EP - 409 TI - Web search engines and distributed assessment systems VL - 14 SP - 387 KW - authority KW - reputation KW - search_engines KW - web_epistemology AU - Heintz, Christophe PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.14.2.15hei ER -