Hillesund Terje
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jul 17;14:1165700. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1165700. eCollection 2023.
Using observational interviews and introducing theories of embodied and distributed cognition, this study examines the scholarly reading and the intellectual habits of a group of social scientists. All participants were working at universities in task environments dominated by digital artifacts and technologies. The study found a strong connection between scholarly reading and the scholars' writing processes and a further coupling to their digital publishing activity. While examining the participants' print and online reading, it turned out that their reading was so tightly coupled to their writing that this entanglement had to be at the core of the analysis. In the study, scholarly reading and writing are analyzed as cognitive processes that extend beyond the brain and body and comprise cognitive artifacts of texts and their material bearers, such as printouts, digital displays, computers, and the Internet. In the process of creating text-or reading writing-brains, bodies, and artifacts are considered to be dynamically coupled in a distributed cognitive process. Based on interviews with a sample of academics, the study analyses how their scholarly reading relates to the other elements in such an extended process and how they utilize the affordances of cognitive digital artifacts in their creative and intellectual endeavors.
本研究运用观察性访谈并引入具身认知和分布式认知理论，考察了一组社会科学家的学术阅读和学术习惯。所有参与者都在以数字制品和技术为主导的任务环境中在大学工作。研究发现学术阅读与学者的写作过程之间存在紧密联系，且与他们的数字出版活动进一步相关联。在考察参与者的纸质阅读和在线阅读时，结果发现他们的阅读与写作紧密相连，以至于这种交织必须成为分析的核心。在该研究中，学术阅读和写作被分析为超越大脑和身体的认知过程，包括文本及其物质载体（如打印件、数字显示屏、计算机和互联网）等认知制品。在创作文本或阅读写作的过程中，大脑、身体和制品被认为在分布式认知过程中动态耦合。基于对一组学者样本的访谈，该研究分析了他们的学术阅读在这样一个扩展过程中如何与其他要素相关联，以及他们在创造性和学术活动中如何利用认知数字制品的特性。
