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Systematics as Cyberscience: Computers, Change, and Continuity in Science
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The use of information and communication technology in scientific research has
been hailed as the means to a new larger-scale, more efficient, and cost-
effective science. But although scientists increasingly use computers in their
work and institutions have made massive investments in technology, we still have
little idea how computing affects the way scientists work and the kind of
knowledge they produce. In Systematics as Cyberscience, Christine Hine explores
these questions by examining the developing use of information and communication
technology in one discipline, systematics (which focuses on the classification
and naming of organisms and exploration of evolutionary relationships). Her
sociological study of the ways that biologists working in this field have
engaged with new technology is an account of how one of the oldest branches of
science transformed itself into one of the newest and became a cyberscience.
Table Of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1 Introducing the Study of a Cyberscience 1
2 Science, ICTs, and the Imagining of Change 19
3 Computers and the Politics of Systematics 63
4 Behind the Scenes and Across the Globe: Virtualizing
the Material Culture of Systematics 99
5 Communication and Disciplinarity 149
6 Individuals, Institutions, Initiatives 187
7 Conclusion: Socially Meaningful Cyberscience 241
Appendix: Messages Sent to the Taxacom List Asking for Input 263
Notes 267
References 269
Series List 293
Product Details
* ISBN: 026208371X
* ISBN-13: 9780262083713
* Format: Hardcover, 307pp
* Publisher: MIT Press
* Pub. Date: March 2008
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