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1 online resource |
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Routledge studies in science, technology and society ; 26 |
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Routledge studies in science, technology, and society ; 26.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; Part I Visualization in the Age of Computerization; 1 Algorithmic Alchemy, or the Work of Code in the Age of Computerized Visualization; 2 From Spade-Work to Screen-Work: New Forms of Archaeological Discovery in Digital Space; 3 British Columbia Mapped: Geology, Indigeneity and Land in the Age of Digital Cartography; 4 Redistributing Representational Work: Tracing a Material Multidisciplinary Link; 5 Making the Strange Familiar: Nanotechnology Images and Their Imagined Futures |
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6 Objectivity and Representative Practices across Artistic and Scientific Visualization7 Brains, Windows and Coordinate Systems; 8 A Four-Dimensional Cinema: Computer Graphics, Higher Dimensions and the Geometrical Imagination; Part II Doing Visual Work in Science Studies; 9 Visual STS; 10 Expanding the Visual Registers of STS; 11 Mapping Networks: Learning From the Epistemology of the "Natives"; 12 Visual STS Is the Answer, What Is the Question?; 13 Visual Science Studies: Always Already Materialist; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Digitalization and computerization are now pervasive in science. This has deep consequences for our understanding of scientific knowledge and of the scientific process, and challenges longstanding assumptions and traditional frameworks of thinking of scientific knowledge. Digital media and computational processes challenge our conception of the way in which perception and cognition work in science, of the objectivity of science, and the nature of scientific objects. They bring about new relationships between science, art and other visual media, and new ways of practicing science and organizing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Information visualization.
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Visualization.
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Digital images.
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Computers and civilization.
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digital images.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Computers and civilization.
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Digital images.
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Information visualization.
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Visualization.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carusi, Annamaria, editor.
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Hoel, Sissel, editor
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Webmoor, Timothy, editor.
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Woolgar, Steve, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781135077372 |
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1135077371 |
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1322073333 |
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9781322073330 |
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