The cognitive entity generation: Emergent properties in social cognition

摘要

The paper identifies the characteristics of the post Y-Generation in relation to information processing and knowledge management in order to support the growing awareness of the digital age and the assumption that socialization and acculturation in the digital era rests on a significant paradigm change in the realm of social cognition. Digital culture is claimed to be acquired by the members of modern societies in a smooth and seamless way the result of which is the permeability between human agents and non-human agents in the contexts of information processing and communicative interaction. The fuzzy borderlines within the digital environment are deemed to result in parallel manner of knowledge management as opposed to the traditionally constituted manner of linear processing. The paper elucidates the process in which traditional cultural narratives get fragmented while the members of the community get profoundly engaged in digital social environments to provide for a cognitive net of augmented virtual realities. The paper draws attention to parallel tendencies in the study of social cognition and points at a direction that necessitates a novel perception of digital culture and digital literacy.