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NEW INFRASTRUCTURS FOR KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION : UNDERSTANDING E-SCI (SC)

ISBN 1-59140-718-4
Pages 0
Year 2006
Edition 1
Rs 6160.00 Rs 4928.00
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New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production: Understanding E-Science 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. New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production: Understanding E-Science 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. Readers interested in understanding contemporary science will gain a rich picture of the practices and the technologies that are shaping the knowledge production of the future.
Content
Table of Contents Foreword ............................................................................................ vi Tony Hey, Microsoft Corporation Preface ............................................................................................. viii Section I: Framing New Infrastructures: What, Why, How, and for Whom? Chapter I Virtual Witnessing in a Virtual Age: A Prospectus for Social Studies of E-Science ........................................................................... 1 Steve Woolgar, University of Oxford, UK Catelijne Coopmans, Imperial College London, UK Chapter II Computerization Movements and Scientific Disciplines: The Reflexive Potential of New Technologies .................................. 26 Christine Hine, University of Surrey, UK Chapter III Imagining E-Science beyond Computation ........................................ 48 Paul Wouters, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands Anne Beaulieu, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands Chapter IV Interest in Production: On the Configuration of Technology-Bearing Labors for Epistemic IT .................................................................... 71 Katie Vann, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands Geoffrey C. Bowker, Santa Clara University, USA Section II: Communication, Disciplinarity, and Collaborative Practice Chapter V Embedding Digital Infrastructure in Epistemic Culture .................... 99 Martina Merz, University of Lausanne & EMPA St. Grallen, Switzerland Chapter VI Networks of Objects: Practical Preconditions for Electronic Communication ............................................................................... 120 Beate Elvebakk, University of Oslo, Norway Chapter VII Challenges for Research and Practice in Distributed, Interdisciplinary Collaboration ....................................................... 143 Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, USA Karen J. Lunsford, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Geoffrey C. Bowker, Santa Clara University, USA Bertram C. Bruce, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Chapter VIII Coordination and Control of Research Practice across Scientific Fields: Implications for a Differentiated E-Science ........................ 167 Jenny Fry, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK Section III: Prospects for Transformation Chapter IX Cyberinfrastructure for Next Generation Scholarly Publishing ...... 189 Michael Nentwich, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Chapter X On Web Structure and Digital Knowledge Bases: Online and Offline Connections in Science ....................................................... 206 Alexandre Caldas, Oxford Internet Insitute, University of Oxford, UK Chapter XI From the ³ Analogue Divide ́ to the ³ Hybrid Divide ́ : The Internet Does Not Ensure Equality of Access to Information in Science ..... 233 Franz Barjak, University of Applied Sciences Solothurn Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland Chapter XII Gender Stratification and E-Science: Can the Internet Circumvent Patrifocality? ................................................................................... 246 Antony Palackal, Loyola College of Social Sciences, India Meredith Anderson, Louisiana State University, USA B. Paige Miller, Louisiana State University, USA Wesley Shrum, Louisiana State University, USA About the Authors ........................................................................... 272 Index ............................................................................................... 279
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