Theories like Distributed Cognition may help us understand user interactions and information flows on social web services. I discuss theory, provide examples from research, and look at limitations of current thinking on measuring and studying social interactions online.

1. Distributed Cognition
and
The Social Web
Brynn M. Evans Reboot 10
University of California Copenhagen, Denmark
at San Diego 27 June 2008

2. About me
PhD student studying cognitive science
focus: how (if) social web services facilitate
information discovery sensemaking

3. BRAIN • BEHAVIOR • COMPUTATION

4. psychology linguistics
neuroscience
COGNITIVE
computer human-
science
SCIENCE
computer
interaction
anthropology philosophy