Virtual knowledge : experimenting in the humanities and the social sciences

Publication Data

• Title Virtual knowledge : experimenting in the humanities and the social sciences
• Contributors Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst, Sally Wyatt
• Publisher The MIT Press
• Publication date 2013
• Publication location Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Language English

Contents

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.

Topics

• Communication in learning and scholarship :: Technological innovations
• Humanities :: Information technology
• Social sciences :: Information technology
• Humanities :: Research
• Social sciences :: Research
• Internet research
• Information visualization
• 016117270

Virtual knowledge : experimenting in the humanities and the social sciences. ISBN 9780262517911. Published by The MIT Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.