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Description :
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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