New infrastructures for knowledge production understanding E-science /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Hine, Christine.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2006.
• Subjects: Internet > Technological innovations.; Computational grids (Computer systems)
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: electronic texts (xviii, 286 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1591407192 (ebook); 9781591407195 (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

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.