03804nam a2200361 4500 BJBSDDR 20251114125124.0 ta 251114s2013 mau||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780262517911 (paperback) 0262517914 (paperback) eng DLC eng AZ 195 V819 2013 Virtual knowledge : experimenting in the humanities and the social sciences / edited by Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Sally Wyatt. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2013 viii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references and index. Authority and expertise in new sites of knowledge production / Anne Beaulieu, Sarah de Rijcke and Bas van Heur -- Working in virtual knowledge : affective labor in scholarly collaboration / Smiljana Antonijević, Stefan Dormans and Sally Wyatt -- Exploring uncertainty in knowledge representations : classifications, simulations and models of the world / Matthijs Kouw, Charles van den Heuvel and Andrea Scharnhorst -- Virtually visual : the visual rhetoric of GIS in policy making / Rebecca Moody, Matthijs Kouw and Victor Bekkers -- Sloppy data floods or precise social science methodologies? : dilemmas in the transition to data-intensive research in sociology and economics / Clement Levallois, Stephanie Steinmetz and Paul Wouters -- Openness in scholarly communication : conceptual framework and challenges to innovation / Clifford Tatum and Nicholas W. Jankowski -- Virtual knowledge in family history : visionary technologies, research dreams and research agendas / Jan Kok and Paul Wouters. An examination of emerging forms of knowledge creation using Web-based technologies, analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective. Today we are witnessing dramatic changes in the way scientific and scholarly knowledge is created, codified, and communicated. This transformation is connected to the use of digital technologies and the virtualization of knowledge. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines consider just what, if anything, is new when knowledge is produced in new ways. Does knowledge itself change when the tools of knowledge acquisition, representation, and distribution become digital? Issues of knowledge creation and dissemination go beyond the development and use of new computational tools. The book, which draws on work from the Virtual Knowledge Studio, brings together research on scientific practice, infrastructure, and technology. Focusing on issues of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, the contributors discuss who can be considered legitimate knowledge creators, the value of "invisible" labor, the role of data visualization in policy making, the visualization of uncertainty, the conceptualization of openness in scholarly communication, data floods in the social sciences, and how expectations about future research shape research practices. The contributors combine an appreciation of the transformative power of the virtual with a commitment to the empirical study of practice and use. Humanidades digitales 45796 Ciencias sociales Innovaciones tecnológicas 46030 Humanidades Investigaciones 45800 Visualización de la información 2086 Teoría del conocimiento 5836 Wouters, Paul, 1951- 46018 editor Beaulieu, Anne, 1970- 46019 editor Scharnhorst, Andrea 46020 editor Wyatt, Sally, 1959- 46021 editor lcc BK cmc 125858 125858 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB RR 2025-11-14 0 AZ 195 V819 2013 00000196868 2025-11-14 14:50:00 1 2025-11-14 BK