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The Internet revolution in the sciences and humanities / Alan G. Gross and Joseph E. Harmon.
LIBRA Z286.I57 G76 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gross, Alan G., author.
- Harmon, Joseph E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Euro courses. Technological innovation.
- Internet publishing.
- Scholarly electronic publishing.
- Science publishing--Technological innovations.
- Science publishing.
- Humanities literature--Publishing--Technological innovation.
- Humanities literature.
- Science and the humanities.
- Communication in science.
- Communication in the humanities.
- Internet in higher education.
- Communication in learning and scholarship--Technological innovations.
- Communication in learning and scholarship.
- Humanities literature--Publishing.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 248 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- In The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities, Alan G. Gross and Joseph E. Harmon argue that the Internet revolution has sown the seeds for transformative changes in both the sciences and the humanities. At the heart of Gross and Harmon's argument is C.P. Snow's distinction between the two cultures, a distinction that is considered anew in this book. Gross and Harmon argue that the humanities can learn from the sciences, as well as the sciences from the humanities, in matters central to both: generating, evaluating, and communicating knowledge on the Internet. In six chapters, the authors deal with the state of the art in web-based journal articles and books, web sites, peer review, and post-publication review. In their final chapter, they address the obstacles the academy and scientific organizations face in taking full advantage of the Internet: outmoded tenure and promotion procedures, the cost of open access, and restrictive patent and copyright law. They argue that overcoming these obstacles does not require radical institutional change. Change must rather be incremental, making use of the powers and prerogatives scientific and academic organizations already have. The first examination of Internet innovation in both the sciences and humanities, this book addresses questions at the very center of the divide between both cultures. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Internet and the Two Cultures 1
- Ideal Types 2
- The Scientific Culture and Scientist as Ideal Type 5
- The Humanistic Culture and Humanist as Ideal Type 7
- The Sciences and Humanities Transformed 10
- The Book Itself 12
- The Audience 16
- 2 The Internet Scientific Article: Reshaping Verbal and Visual Communication 17
- Revolution or Evolution? 17
- A Survey of the Web Article 23
- Increasing Accessibility 24
- The Changing Nature of Authorship 26
- Coping with Complexity 27
- Increasing Inter- and Intra-textuality 28
- Including Reader Comments and Reader Statistics 33
- Enhancing Visualization 34
- Internet Visualization and the Science of Shape 38
- Birth of a Science of Shape 39
- The Mathematical Visualization of Shape 42
- Science of Shape and the Internet 46
- Conclusion 50
- Internet Humanities Essays and Books: Seeing and Hearing Anew 52
- Internet Innovation and the Humanities Essay 52
- Historians See Anew 55
- Photographs as Historical Evidence 55
- Art as Historical Evidence 60
- Reinterpreting the Civil War: The Role of Visualization 64
- Meeting the Challenge of Urban History: A Multimedia Los Angeles 69
- Reimagining the Roman Forum: Vision as Hypothesis 75
- Musicians See and Hear Anew 77
- Film Scholars See Anew 79
- Conclusion 86
- 4 Archival Websites in the Humanities and Sciences 88
- Websites that Provide Resources for Scholarship 91
- Websites that Store Data for Scientific Research 104
- Websites that Store Scientific or Scholarly Papers 107
- Websites that Create Knowledge Through Volunteer Participation 110
- Websites that Codify Existing Knowledge 115
- Conclusion 120
- 5 Evaluation Before Publication: Opening up Peer Review 122
- The Case for and Against Peer Review 123
- Argument Theory and Peer Review 126
- Theory Application 129
- Open Internet Peer Review in the Sciences 135
- Open Internet Peer Review in the Humanities 144
- Peer Sourcing: The Wave of the Future? 151
- Conclusion 153
- 6 Evaluation After Publication: Setting the Record Straight 155
- Watchdog Blogs in the Sciences What Watchdog Blogs Reveal 158
- How Watchdog Blogs Work 165 Humanities Post-Peer Review 169
- Postpublication Peer Review: The Article 172
- Postpublication Peer Review: The Book 178
- Conclusion 186
- 7 Overcoming the Obstacles to Internet Exploitation 188
- The Opportunities 188
- Gated Access: The First Obstacle 189
- Current Tenure Rules: The Second Obstacle 193
- Digital Preservation: The Third Obstacle 195
- Patents and Copyright: The Fourth Obstacle 197
- Freedom of Information: The Fifth Obstacle 203
- A Path Forward 206.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190465933
- 019046593X
- 9780190465926
- 0190465921
- OCLC:
- 936684853
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