Visualization in the Age of Computerization

ISBN-13: 9780415814454 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 292 str.

Annamaria Carusi; Aud Sissel Hoel; Timothy Webmoor

Opis

This volume explores the ways that computational visualisation affects practices of science, the perceptual and cognitive activities involved in scientific enquiry, and the notions of objectivity that are deployed methodologically, as well as with respect to what counts as a scientific object.

Recenzje

'Highly Recommended: The editors provide a strong introductory essay that sets a clear context for the various essays that follow, and the quality of the writing across the book is very high.'— R. A. Kolvoord, James Madison University, Choice Reviews

Spis treści

Introduction  Annamaria Carusi, Aud Sissel Hoel, Timothy Webmoor and Steve Woolgar  Part One: Visualization in the Age of Computerization  1. Algorithmic Alchemy, or the Work of Code in the Age of Computerized Visualization  Timothy Webmoor  2. From Spade-Work to Screen-Work: New Forms of Archaeological Discovery in Digital Space  Matt Edgeworth  3. British Columbia Mapped: Geology, Indigeneity, and Land in the Age of Digital Cartography  Tom Schilling  4. Redistributing Representational Work: Tracing a Material Multidisciplinary Link  David Ribes  5. Making the Strange Familiar: Nanotechnology Images and Their Imagined Futures  Michael Lynch and Kathryn de Ridder-Vignone  6. Objectivity and Representative Practices Across Artistic and Scientific Visualization  Chiara Ambrosio  7. Brains, Windows and Coordinate Systems  Annamaria Carusi and Aud Sissel Hoel  8. A Four-Dimensional Cinema: Computer Graphics, Higher Dimensions, and the Geometrical Imagination  Alma Steingart  Part Two: Doing Visual Work in Science Studies  9. Visual STS  Peter Galison  10. Expanding the Visual Registers of STS  Torben Elgaard Jensen, Anders Kristian Munk, Anders Koed Madsen and Andreas Birkbak  11. Mapping Networks: Learning From the Epistemology of the "Natives"  Albena Yaneva  12. Visual STS Is the Answer, What Is the Question?  Anne Beaulieu  13. Visual Science Studies: Always Already Materialist  Lisa Cartwright

O autorze

Annamaria Carusi is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Medical Science and Technology at the University of Copenhagen. Aud Sissel Hoel is Associate Professor in Visual Communication at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Timothy Webmoor is Assistant Professor adjunct in the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder. Steve Woolgar is Chair of Marketing and Head of Science and Technology Studies at Said Business School, University of Oxford.