Virtual Knowledge: Experimenting in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (Hardcover)

Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst, Sally Wyatt

商品描述

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.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

今天,我們目睹了科學和學術知識的創造、編碼和傳播方式發生了戲劇性的變化。這種轉變與數字技術的使用和知識的虛擬化有關。在這本書中,來自不同學科的學者們考慮了當知識以新的方式產生時,是否有什麼新的東西。當知識獲取、表示和分發的工具變成數字時,知識本身是否會改變?

知識創造和傳播的問題超越了新計算工具的開發和使用。這本書借鑒了虛擬知識工作室的研究成果,匯集了關於科學實踐、基礎設施和技術的研究。聚焦於人文和社會科學領域的數字學術問題,貢獻者們討論了誰可以被視為合法的知識創造者,「隱形」勞動的價值,數據可視化在政策制定中的作用,不確定性的可視化,學術交流中開放性的概念化,社會科學中的數據洪流,以及對未來研究的期望如何塑造研究實踐。貢獻者們將對虛擬的轉化力量的欣賞與對實踐和使用的實證研究的承諾相結合。