Cognizione-in-interazione, azione pratica e artefatti: il contributo della ricerca psicologica allo studio della relazione fra tecnologie e comunità lavorative

Journal title STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI
Author/s Francesca Alby
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/1
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 163-177 File size 68 KB
DOI 10.3280/SO2014-001008
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The article describes the authors and theories that, in the domain of psychological research, helped to shape a conception of the mind as "technological", i.e. always mediated by artifacts, and of human cognition as culturally and historically situated, that is to be interpreted within a context always historically characterized and marked by the culture and its material and symbolic tools. Within this vision of psychological functioning, the article describes the conceptual tools, such as the constructs of "practice", "artifact", "knowledge-in-interaction", with which psychological research contributes to the interdisciplinary enterprise of analysing the relationship between technologies, socio-psychological phenomena and work communities.

Keywords: Technology, artifact, cultural psychology, work practices, cognition-ininteraction.

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Francesca Alby, Cognizione-in-interazione, azione pratica e artefatti: il contributo della ricerca psicologica allo studio della relazione fra tecnologie e comunità lavorative in "STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI " 1/2014, pp 163-177, DOI: 10.3280/SO2014-001008