Building New Bridges - Bâtir de nouveaux ponts: Sources, Methods and Interdisciplinarity - Sources, méthodes et interdisciplinarité

Questions of methodology and the use of sources are fundamental to all academic disciplines. In recent years, this topic has become far more challenging as scholars are increasingly adopting an interdisciplinary approach to achieve richer and deeper analyses, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Building New Bridges / Bâtir de nouveaux ponts is a collection of scholarly papers that deals with the first principles of source identification and their effective utilization. The contributors to the volume come from a wide range of disciplines and represent both French and English Canada. Together, they explore and encourage the interdisciplinarity trend - around which considerable academic trepidation remains - and seek to explain, for example, how historians and those in English or Lettres françaises analyze texts, how scholars approach paintings, photography, and film, and how the study of music relates tempo and lyrics to wider societal trends. They utilize their respective research to elucidate means of effectively employing evidences and methods to achieve richer, deeper, and more nuanced results. As a whole, the collection provides an excellent primer for scholars of methodology. Cover......Page 1 Half-Title Page......Page 3 Title Page......Page 5 Copyright Page......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 Preamble......Page 11 Methods and interdisciplinarity......Page 12 Sophie Gaultier Le Bris......Page 18 Jean-Pierre Müller......Page 19 Matthieu Salpeteur......Page 20 Acknowledgements......Page 21 References......Page 22 1.1. Iméra project (Institut méditerranéen d’études avancées – Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies)......Page 23 1.2. Testing the typology of interdisciplinarity......Page 26 1.2.1. From formalisms to models and experiments......Page 27 1.2.2. Interacting with cross-disciplinary learning and instrumentation......Page 28 1.2.3. Interdisciplinarity of competing hypotheses and experiments......Page 31 1.2.4. Reflective intertemporal interdisciplinarity......Page 32 1.2.5. Interactions by combining disciplines......Page 33 1.2.6. Interdisciplinarity of reciprocity between contexts......Page 35 1.2.7. Transdisciplinarity between science and the reception of science......Page 38 1.2.8. Transdisciplinarity between arts and sciences......Page 41 1.3. Conclusion......Page 42 2.1. Introduction......Page 45 2.2. Computers and numbers: quantifying geography......Page 47 2.2.1. Diversity of practices......Page 48 2.2.2. Epistemological changes driven by computer science rather than conceptual borrowings......Page 49 2.3. Simulation in geography and algorithmic thinking......Page 53 2.3.1. A difficult path......Page 54 2.3.2. Towards a win-win collaboration......Page 57 2.3.3. Geography in all digital objects......Page 58 2.4. Conclusion......Page 60 2.5. References......Page 61 3.1. Introduction......Page 67 3.2. Representation of theoretical discourses......Page 69 3.3. Disciplinary views on species......Page 72 3.4. Sectors and qualities......Page 79 3.5. Validation and communicability......Page 83 3.6. Conclusion......Page 87 3.7. References......Page 88 4.1. Introduction......Page 91 4.1.1. Societies-environment interactions, what complex systems?......Page 92 4.1.2. Introduction to network formalism......Page 94 4.2. Examples of applications to the study of interactions between societies and the environment......Page 98 4.2.1. Crop seed circulation and social networks......Page 99 4.2.2. Circulation of knowledge and structuring of knowhow......Page 109 4.3. Discussion: a necessary link between the quantitative and the qualitative......Page 115 4.4. References......Page 118 5.1. Introduction......Page 121 5.2. Decision theory......Page 122 5.3.1. VUCA definitions in management......Page 124 5.3.2. Definitions from decision theory......Page 126 5.4. Discussion......Page 134 5.5. References......Page 137 6.1. Engineering education & training and highly reliable organizations......Page 139 6.2. Issues at stake......Page 141 6.2.1. VUCA phenomenon classes......Page 143 6.3.1. Running highly reliable and actionist organizations......Page 147 6.3.2. Selected models......Page 149 6.4. Cross-disciplinary decision-making skills: designoriented research......Page 150 6.4.1. Research methodology for learning......Page 151 6.4.2. From model to reality......Page 152 6.4.3. Learning outcomes......Page 155 6.5. Conclusion......Page 158 6.6. Appendix: level of experience and feedback from IMTA students......Page 160 6.7. References......Page 166 7.1. Writing and linguistics......Page 171 7.2. Spectral decomposition to the rescue of linguistics......Page 176 7.3. Application in biometrics......Page 181 7.4. Application in steganography......Page 184 7.4.1. Steganographic approach to Greeklish......Page 185 7.4.2. Steganographic method: evaluation......Page 187 7.6. References......Page 189 List of Authors......Page 193 Index......Page 195 Other titles from iSTE in Science, Society and New Technologies......Page 197 EULA......Page 203

Questions of methodology and the use of sources are fundamental to all academic disciplines. In recent years, this topic has become far more challenging as scholars are increasingly adopting an interdisciplinary approach to achieve richer and deeper analyses, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Building New Bridges / Bâtir de nouveaux ponts is a collection of scholarly papers that deals with the first principles of source identification and their effective utilization.

The contributors to the volume come from a wide range of disciplines and represent both French and English Canada. Together, they explore and encourage the interdisciplinarity trend - around which considerable academic trepidation remains - and seek to explain, for example, how historians and those in English or Lettres françaises analyze texts, how scholars approach paintings, photography, and film, and how the study of music relates tempo and lyrics to wider societal trends. They utilize their respective research to elucidate means of effectively employing evidences and methods to achieve richer, deeper, and more nuanced results. As a whole, the collection provides an excellent primer for scholars of methodology.