New infrastructures for knowledge production understanding E-science /

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 author...

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Bibliographic Details
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.
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Table of 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.].