New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production

New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production
Author: Christine Hine
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1591407192

"This book is offers an overview of the practices and the technologies that are shaping the knowledge production of the future"--Provided by publisher.

New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production

New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production
Author: Christine Hine
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1591407176

"This book is offers an overview of the practices and the technologies that are shaping the knowledge production of the future"--Provided by publisher.

Beyond the Lab and the Field

Beyond the Lab and the Field
Author: Eike-Christian Heine
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0822987783

Beyond the Lab and the Field analyzes infrastructures as intense sites of knowledge production in the Americas, Europe, and Asia since the late nineteenth century. Moving beyond classical places known for yielding scientific knowledge, chapters in this volume explore how the construction and maintenance of canals, highways, dams, irrigation schemes, the oil industry, and logistic networks intersected with the creation of know-how and expertise. Referred to by the authors as “scientific bonanzas,” such intersections reveal opportunities for great wealth, but also distress and misfortune. This volume explores how innovative technologies provided research opportunities for scientists and engineers, as they relied on expertise to operate, which resulted in enormous profits for some. But, like the history of any gold rush, the history of infrastructure also reveals how technologies of modernity transformed nature, disrupting communities and destroying the local environment. Focusing not on the victory march of science and technology but on ambivalent change, contributors consider the role of infrastructures for ecology, geology, archaeology, soil science, engineering, ethnography, heritage, and polar exploration. Together, they also examine largely overlooked perspectives on modernity: the reliance of infrastructure on knowledge, and infrastructures as places and occasions that inspired a greater understanding of the natural world and the technologically made environment.

Middle East Studies for the New Millennium

Middle East Studies for the New Millennium
Author: Seteney Khalid Shami
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1479827789

Afterword: Middle East Studies for the New Millennium: Infrastructures of Knowledge -- Appendix: Producing Knowledge on World Regions: Overview of Data Collection and Project Methodology, 2000-Present -- About the Contributors -- Index

The New Production of Knowledge

The New Production of Knowledge
Author: Michael Gibbons
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1994-09-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780803977945

In this provocative and broad-ranging work, the authors argue that the ways in which knowledge - scientific, social and cultural - is produced are undergoing fundamental changes at the end of the twentieth century. They claim that these changes mark a distinct shift into a new mode of knowledge production which is replacing or reforming established institutions, disciplines, practices and policies. Identifying features of the new mode of knowledge production - reflexivity, transdisciplinarity, heterogeneity - the authors show how these features connect with the changing role of knowledge in social relations. While the knowledge produced by research and development in science and technology is accorded central concern, the

E-Research

E-Research
Author:
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1951
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN: 1135855072

The New Production of Knowledge

The New Production of Knowledge
Author: Michael Gibbons
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1994-09-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Evolution of Knowledge Production The Marketability and Commercialisation of Knowledge Massification of Research and Education The Case of the Humanities Competitiveness, Collaboration and Globalisation Reconfiguring Institutions Towards Managing Socially Distributed Knowledge.

A History of Participation in Museums and Archives

A History of Participation in Museums and Archives
Author: Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2021-12-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781032173047

Traversing disciplines, A History of Participation in Museums and Archives provides a framework for understanding how participatory modes in natural, cultural, and scientific heritage institutions intersect with practices in citizen science and citizen humanities. Drawing on perspectives in cultural history, science and technology studies, and media and communication theory, the book explores how museums and archives make science and cultural heritage relevant to people's everyday lives, while soliciting their assistance and participation in research and citizen projects. More specifically, the book critically examines how different forms of engagement are constructed, how concepts of democratization are framed and enacted, and how epistemic practices in science and the humanities are transformed through socio-technological infrastructures. Tracking these central themes across disciplines and research from Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States, the book simultaneously considers their relevance for museum and heritage studies. A History of Participation in Museums and Archives should be essential reading for a broad academic audience, including scholars and students in museum and heritage studies, digital humanities, and the public communication of science and technology. It should also be of great interest to museum professionals working to foster public engagement through collaboration with networks and local community groups.

Software, Infrastructure, Labor

Software, Infrastructure, Labor
Author: Ned Rossiter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2016-06-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1135016372

Infrastructure makes worlds. Software coordinates labor. Logistics governs movement. These pillars of contemporary capitalism correspond with the materiality of digital communication systems on a planetary scale. Ned Rossiter theorizes the force of logistical media to discern how subjectivity and labor, economy and society are tied to the logistical imaginary of seamless interoperability. Contingency haunts logistical power. Technologies of capture are prone to infrastructural breakdown, sabotage, and failure. Strategies of evasion, anonymity, and disruption unsettle regimes of calculation and containment. We live in a computational age where media, again, disappear into the background as infrastructure. Software, Infrastructure, Labor intercuts transdisciplinary theoretical reflection with empirical encounters ranging from the Cold War legacy of cybernetics, shipping ports in China and Greece, the territoriality of data centers, video game design, and scrap metal economies in the e-waste industry. Rossiter argues that infrastructural ruins serve as resources for the collective design of blueprints and prototypes demanded of radical politics today.

Between Humanities and the Digital

Between Humanities and the Digital
Author: Patrik Svensson
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 589
Release: 2015-06-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0262328372

Scholars from a range of disciplines offer an expansive vision of the intersections between new information technologies and the humanities. Between Humanities and the Digital offers an expansive vision of how the humanities engage with digital and information technology, providing a range of perspectives on a quickly evolving, contested, and exciting field. It documents the multiplicity of ways that humanities scholars have turned increasingly to digital and information technology as both a scholarly tool and a cultural object in need of analysis. The contributors explore the state of the art in digital humanities from varied disciplinary perspectives, offer a sample of digitally inflected work that ranges from an analysis of computational literature to the collaborative development of a “Global Middle Ages” humanities platform, and examine new models for knowledge production and infrastructure. Their contributions show not only that the digital has prompted the humanities to move beyond traditional scholarly horizons, but also that the humanities have pushed the digital to become more than a narrowly technical application. Contributors Ian Bogost, Anne Cong-Huyen, Mats Dahlström, Cathy N. Davidson, Johanna Drucker, Amy E. Earhart, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Maurizio Forte, Zephyr Frank, David Theo Goldberg, Jennifer González, Jo Guldi, N. Katherine Hayles, Geraldine Heng, Larissa Hjorth, Tim Hutchings, Henry Jenkins, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Cecilia Lindhé, Alan Liu, Elizabeth Losh, Tara McPherson, Chandra Mukerji, Nick Montfort, Jenna Ng, Bethany Nowviskie, Jennie Olofsson, Lisa Parks, Natalie Phillips, Todd Presner, Stephen Rachman, Patricia Seed, Nishant Shah, Ray Siemens, Jentery Sayers, Jonathan Sterne, Patrik Svensson, William G. Thomas III, Whitney Anne Trettien, Michael Widner