Representation in scientific practice revisited / edited by Catelijne Coopmans [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coopmans, Catelijne, 1976-

Series:

Inside Technology

Inside technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Research--Methodology.

Research.

Science--Methodology.

Science.

Technology--Methodology.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A new series of essays that sets the bar for the study of representation in science in the twenty-first century. Chapters span a range of topics, including molecular modelling, nano-imaging, mathematical formalisms, and digital imagery in neuroscience, planetary science, and biology - as well as business data visualisation, economics diagrams and technology-mediated surgery.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction: Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited; 1. Introduction; 2. The Concept Formerly Known as Representation; 3. "New" Studies of Representation in Scientific Practice; 4. The Arc of the Work; Notes; References; Chapters; 2. Drawing as: Distinctions and Disambiguation in Digital Images of Mars; 1. Introduction: A Martian Discovery; 2. Drawing as in Theoretical Context; 3. "Making It Pop Out": Image Work and the Dawn of Aspect; 4. The Many Visions of Tyrone: Drawing as in Action; 5. The "Light-Soil Campaign": From Drawing as to Seeing as; 6. Conclusion

AcknowledgmentsNotes; References; 3. Visual Analytics as Artful Revelation; 1. Artfulness and Revelation; 2. Watching Webinars; 3. From Sight to Insight: Showing Screen Configuration; 4. What You See Is (Not) What You Get; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Webinars; 4. Digital Scientific Visuals as Fields for Interaction; 1. Studying the Digitality of Scientific Visuals; 2. fMRI Brain Visuals as Diagrams; 3. In the Laboratory; 4. The Imaged Body in the Brain Visuals; 5. Digital and Visual as Interdependent; 6. Extending the Boundaries of Scientific Visuals; Notes; References

5. Swimming in the Joint1. Sensing and Acting; 2. Inhabiting Minimally Invasive Space; 3. "Operating on Images"; 4. Inhabiting Surgical Space; Notes; 6. Chalk: Materials and Concepts in Mathematics Research; 1. Chalk in Hand; 2. Prior Accounts; 3. Mathematics in Action; 4. An Ostentatious Medium; 5. Proofs and Reformulations; 6. Representation in Mathematical Practice; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 7. Networked Neuroscience: Brain Scans and Visual Knowing at the Intersection of Atlases and Databases; 1. Introduction: Seeing the Brain; 2. Scans in Suites

3. Deploying Database Logic and Probabilistic Thinking to Make Images4. The Atlas as Interface; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 8. Rendering Machinic Life; 1. Introduction; 2. Rending Representation; 3. The Invention of Molecular Machines; 4. Twenty-first-Century Molecular Machines; 5. Renderings as Materialized Refigurations; 6. Cultivating a Feeling for Machines; 7. Engineering Biological Engineers; 8. Deadpan Literalism; 9. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 9. Nanoimages as Hybrid Monsters; 1. Introduction; 2. Images of Nanotechnology

3. Hybrid Monsters and Attempts at Domestication and Purification4. Images of Science and the Tension with Fiction; 5. Images Importing the Future into the Present; 6. Design Orientation; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 10. Toward a New Ontology of Scientific Vision; 1. Introduction; 2. Blurring Boundaries: Computational Biology; 3. Toward a New Ontology of Scientific Vision; 4. Perceptual Relations and the Measuring Body; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; 11. Essential Tensions and Representational Strategies; 1. Nanotechnology, Computerization, and Normal versus Revolutionary

2. From Graphs to Images

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780262319164

0262319160

9780262319157

0262319152

OCLC:

868068642