Systematics as cyberscience : computers, change, and continuity in science / Christine Hine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hine, Christine.

Series:

Inside technology.

Inside technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology--Classification--Data processing.

Biology.

Information storage and retrieval systems--Biology.

Information storage and retrieval systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 307 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For all the use scientists make of computers in their work, we still know little about how computing affects their working methods and the knowledge they produce. Christine Hine explores these questions by examining the developing use of information technology in one discipline, systematics (the classification of organisims).

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introducing the Study of a Cyberscience

2 Science, ICTs, and the Imagining of Change

3 Computers and the Politics of Systematics

4 Behind the Scenes and Across the Globe: Virtualizing the Material Culture of Systematics

5 Communication and Disciplinarity

6 Individuals, Institutions, Initiatives

7 Conclusion: Socially Meaningful Cyberscience

Appendix: Messages Sent to the Taxacom List Asking for Input

Notes

References

Series List

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-295) and index.

ISBN:

0-262-26318-1

1-282-09934-5

9786612099342

0-262-27540-6

1-4356-2836-5

OCLC:

191884777

Publisher Number:

9786612099342