The cognitive ecology of the internet. Smart, P., Heersmink, R., & Clowes, R. W. In Cowley, S. J. & Vallée-Tourangeau, F., editors, Cognition Beyond the Brain: Computation, Interactivity and Human Artifice, pages 251–282. Springer, 2017.
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In this chapter, we analyze the relationships between the Internet and its users in terms of situated cognitionCognition theory. We first argue that the Internet is a new kind of cognitiveCognitive ecology ecologyEcology , providing almost constant access to a vast amount of digital information that is increasingly more integrated into our cognitive routines. We then briefly introduce situated cognition theory and its species of embedded, embodied, extended, distributed and collective cognition. Having thus set the stage, we begin by taking an embedded cognition view and analyze how the Internet aids certain cognitive tasks. After that, we conceptualize how the Internet enables new kinds of embodied interactionInteraction , extends certain aspects of our embodiment, and examine how wearable technologies that monitor physiological, behavioral and contextual states transform the embodied self. On the basis of the degree of cognitive integrationIntegration between a user and Internet resource, we then look at how and when the Internet extends our cognitive processes. We end this chapter with a discussion of distributed and collective cognition as facilitated by the Internet.
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abstract = {In this chapter, we analyze the relationships between the Internet and its users in terms of situated cognitionCognition theory. We first argue that the Internet is a new kind of cognitiveCognitive ecology ecologyEcology , providing almost constant access to a vast amount of digital information that is increasingly more integrated into our cognitive routines. We then briefly introduce situated cognition theory and its species of embedded, embodied, extended, distributed and collective cognition. Having thus set the stage, we begin by taking an embedded cognition view and analyze how the Internet aids certain cognitive tasks. After that, we conceptualize how the Internet enables new kinds of embodied interactionInteraction , extends certain aspects of our embodiment, and examine how wearable technologies that monitor physiological, behavioral and contextual states transform the embodied self. On the basis of the degree of cognitive integrationIntegration between a user and Internet resource, we then look at how and when the Internet extends our cognitive processes. We end this chapter with a discussion of distributed and collective cognition as facilitated by the Internet.},
author = {Smart, Paul and Heersmink, Richard and Clowes, Robert W.},
booktitle = {Cognition Beyond the Brain: Computation, Interactivity and Human Artifice},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-49115-8_13},
editor = {Cowley, S. J. and Vall{\'{e}}e-Tourangeau, F.},
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isbn = {9783319491158},
pages = {251--282},
publisher = {Springer},
title = {{The cognitive ecology of the internet}},
url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-49115-8{\_}13},
year = {2017}
}

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