Scholarly reading (and writing) and the power of impact factors: a study of distributed cognition and intellectual habits
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...
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| description | 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 and 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-37c9890004794c68be197c956e6ae14d2023-07-17T23:25:53ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-07-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.11657001165700Scholarly reading (and writing) and the power of impact factors: a study of distributed cognition and intellectual habitsTerje HillesundUsing 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 and 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.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1165700/fulldistributed cognitionembodied cognitionscholarly readingscholarly writing and publishingintellectual habitsimpact factor (IF) |
| spellingShingle | Terje Hillesund Scholarly reading (and writing) and the power of impact factors: a study of distributed cognition and intellectual habits Frontiers in Psychology distributed cognition embodied cognition scholarly reading scholarly writing and publishing intellectual habits impact factor (IF) |
| title | Scholarly reading (and writing) and the power of impact factors: a study of distributed cognition and intellectual habits |
| title_full | Scholarly reading (and writing) and the power of impact factors: a study of distributed cognition and intellectual habits |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Scholarly reading (and writing) and the power of impact factors: a study of distributed cognition and intellectual habits |
| title_short | Scholarly reading (and writing) and the power of impact factors: a study of distributed cognition and intellectual habits |
| title_sort | scholarly reading and writing and the power of impact factors a study of distributed cognition and intellectual habits |
| topic | distributed cognition embodied cognition scholarly reading scholarly writing and publishing intellectual habits impact factor (IF) |
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