"This book is offers an overview of the practices and the technologies that are shaping the knowledge production of the future"--Provided by publisher.
Virtual witnessing in a virtual age : a prospectus for social studies of e-science / Steve Woolgar, Catelijne Coopmans -- Computerization movements and scientific disciplines : the reflexive potential of new technologies / Christine Hine -- Imagining e-science beyond computation / Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu -- Interests in production : on the configurement of technology-bearing labors for epistemic IT / Katie Vann, Geoffrey C. Bowker -- Embedding digital infrastructure in epistemic culture / Martina Merz -- Networks of objects : practical preconditions for electronic communication / Beate Elvebakk -- Challenges for research and practice in distributed, interdisciplinary collaboration / Caroline Haythornthwaite ... [et al.] -- Coordination and control of research practice across scientific fields : implications for a differentiated e-science / Jenny Fry -- Cyberinfrastructure for next generation scholarly publishing / Michael Nentwich -- On web structure and digital knowledge bases : online and offline connections in science / Alexandre Caldas -- From the "analogue divide" to the "hybrid divide" : the Internet does not ensure equality of access to information in science / Franz Barjak -- Gender stratification and e-science : can the Internet circumvent patrifocality? / Antony Palackal ... [et al.].