Sharing Representations and Creating Chances through Cognitive Niche Construction. The Role of Affordances and Abduction

Magnani, Lorenzo; Bardone, Emanuele

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“…Hoffmeyer (1995) coined the semiotic niche term to signify the semiotic spaces that are actualized by certain organisms in species' specific semiotic processes when interacting with their environment. Magnani (2008), and Magnani and Bardone (2008) use the term cognitive niche to mark the distributed space that people create by interrelating individual cognition and the environment through the continuous interplay through abductive processes in which they alter and modify the environment. In the knowledge ecologies we can use the learning niche term that marks the cognitive niches that are related to learning-related activities.…”

Section: Enactment When Learning In Knowledge Ecosystems: Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Revising the Framework of Knowledge Ecologies

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2010

Educational Social Software for Context-Aware Learning

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This chapter describes the Web of social software tools with its inhabitants as an evolving and ecological environment, discussing and elaborating the connectivist framework coined by George Siemens in his book Knowing Knowledge. This new perspective to ecological learning in social software environments resides on the ideas of Gibson’s and his followers approach to ecological psychology, the rising theory of embodied simulation and Lotman’s theory of cultural semiosis. In the empirical part of the chapter, we focus on the methods of investigating how social software systems become accommodated with their users forming learning spaces. Analysis discusses such ecologically defined spaces for individual and collaborative learning.

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Section: Enactment When Learning In Knowledge Ecosystems: Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several authors address this knowledge using different terms eg. cultural knowledge (Heft, 2001); semiotic niche (Hoffmeyer, 1995) or cognitive niche (Magnani, 2008;Magnani & Bardone, 2008). These terms will be elaborated in the further parts of the paper.…”

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Revising the Framework of Knowledge Ecologies

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2010

Educational Social Software for Context-Aware Learning

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“…In many cases, what is at stake is the opportunity of editing in a negative sense, in removing or downplaying, an existent ecological or cognitive trait: as defined by Oshawa and McBurney (2003), a chance is a new event or situation conveying both an opportunity and a risk in the future. Recently, a number of contributions have acknowledged the abductive dimension of seeking chances with relation to science (Magnani 2005;Magnani and Bardone 2008;Magnani 2009;Abe 2009). As maintained by Magnani and Bardone (2008) and Abe (2009), the process of chance detection (and creation) is resulting from an inferential process-mainly abductive-in which the agent exploits latent clues and signs signaling or informing the presence of an action opportunity (Magnani and Bardone 2008).…”

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“…Recently, a number of contributions have acknowledged the abductive dimension of seeking chances with relation to science (Magnani 2005;Magnani and Bardone 2008;Magnani 2009;Abe 2009). As maintained by Magnani and Bardone (2008) and Abe (2009), the process of chance detection (and creation) is resulting from an inferential process-mainly abductive-in which the agent exploits latent clues and signs signaling or informing the presence of an action opportunity (Magnani and Bardone 2008). In this case, as argued by Magnani (2009) the abductive inferential dimension has to be considered beyond its sentential/computational one.…”

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Curating the Richness of Cognitive Niches

Bertolotti

2015

Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics

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This chapter focuses on the curation of cognitive niches understood as the curation of eco-cognitive chances: as chances can be faked, it seems intuitive to think that the inhibition of chance-faking contexts is a good activity of chance curation. Yet, could this activity sometimes be counterproductive? The question will be answered positively considering the case of bullshit as a case of fake chances, but also as a fertile ground for learning and developing intuitions. Ultimately, this chapter will argue that the peculiar context, that is the cognitive niche supporting the (potentially) fake chances, is the discriminating factor: indeed, a rich cognitive niche may benefit from certain kind of fake chances-which should therefore not be inhibited-whereas a poorer niche might not benefit from this situation, and therefore the preclusion of fake chances is an act of chance curation in those contexts. IntroductionMy research did not focus on the biological arguments in favor of niche construction theory, but rather took it as a given and elaborated on a number of related issues that had been disregarded so far, mainly related to the management of cognitive niches and the underlying cognitive dynamics. It seems therefore proper to commence with the analysis of a phenomenon that is strictly connected with the management of cognitive niches, that is chance curation.Providing an introduction to cognitive niche theory, I stressed the relevance of two strictly related notions: chances and affordances, denoting niche construction as the activity of selecting the best ecological (and cultural) chances, that is those able to resonate with the agent's ecological, cognitive and cultural endowments, and thus become affordances-an affordance is in fact a relationship that is situated in a nexus between the ecological (external) dimension and the individual (cognitive) one.Parts of this chapter were originally published in L. Magnani, T. Bertolotti (2013). Selecting chance curation strategies: Is chance curation related to the richness of a cognitive niche?

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“…This is in line with Hoffmeyer's concept of semiotic niche (1995) intended to signify semiotic spaces that are actualized by certain organisms in species' specific semiotic processes when interacting with their environment. Magnani (2008), and Magnani and Bardone (2008) in turn use the term cognitive niche to point at the distributed space that participants create by interrelating individual cognition and the environment through the continuous interplay through abductive processes in which they alter and modify the environment.…”

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Participatory Design Experiment

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Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities

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This chapter describes a participatory design experiment that is influenced by the swarming activity. The chapter introduces a new approach to writing narratives in virtual learning communities of the social Web 2.0 and contrasts it with traditional storytelling approaches. In the participatory design experiment we developed a hybrid virtual storytelling playground that augments the real world – a hybrid ecosystem of narratives. It consists of social software tools freely available in the Web, such as microblogs, social repositories of images, and blogs, the real locations in the city, and the storytellers who leave their digital contents. The results of writing narratives as a swarm in a hybrid ecosystem are presented. In our experiment, instead of bending old novel formats into the hybrid ecosystem, the evidences of new evolving narrative formats of this hybrid space were explored.

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Sharing Representations and Creating Chances through Cognitive Niche Construction. The Role of Affordances and Abduction

Cited by 27 publications

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Revising the Framework of Knowledge Ecologies

Revising the Framework of Knowledge Ecologies

Curating the Richness of Cognitive Niches

Participatory Design Experiment

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