New infrastructures for knowledge production understanding E-science
Title:
New infrastructures for knowledge production understanding E-science
Author:
Hine, Christine.
ISBN:
9781591407195
Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2006.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (xviii, 286 p. : ill.) : digital files.
Contents:
Virtual witnessing in a virtual age : a prospectus for social studies of e-science / Steve Woolgar, Catelijne Coopmans -- Computerization movements and scientific disciplines : the reflexive potential of new technologies / Christine Hine -- Imagining e-science beyond computation / Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu -- Interests in production : on the configurement of technology-bearing labors for epistemic IT / Katie Vann, Geoffrey C. Bowker -- Embedding digital infrastructure in epistemic culture / Martina Merz -- Networks of objects : practical preconditions for electronic communication / Beate Elvebakk -- Challenges for research and practice in distributed, interdisciplinary collaboration / Caroline Haythornthwaite ... [et al.] -- Coordination and control of research practice across scientific fields : implications for a differentiated e-science / Jenny Fry -- Cyberinfrastructure for next generation scholarly publishing / Michael Nentwich -- On web structure and digital knowledge bases : online and offline connections in science / Alexandre Caldas -- From the "analogue divide" to the "hybrid divide" : the Internet does not ensure equality of access to information in science / Franz Barjak -- Gender stratification and e-science : can the Internet circumvent patrifocality? / Antony Palackal ... [et al.].
Abstract:
This book offers a distinctive understanding of new infrastructures for knowledge production based in science and technology studies. This field offers a unique potential to assess systematically the prospects for new modes of science enabled by information and communication technologies. The authors use varied methodological approaches, reviewing the origins of initiatives to develop e-science infrastructures, exploring the diversity of the various solutions and the scientific cultures which use them, and assessing the prospects for wholesale change in scientific structures and practices. The book contains practical advice for the design of appropriate technological solutions, and long range assessments of the prospects for change useful both to policy makers and those implementing institutional infrastructures.
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