『Systematics as Cyberscience: Computers, Change, and Continuity in Science』

Christine Hine

(2008年3月刊行,The MIT Press[Series: Inside Technology],320 pp.,ISBN:9780262083713 [hbk] → 版元ページ



【詳細目次】
Acknowledgments ix


Chapter 1: Introducing the Study of a Cyberscience 1

An Autobiographical Entry into the Field 2
Positioning a Case Study of a Cyberscience 8
Outline of the Book 12

Chapter 2: Science, ICTs, and the Imagining of Change 19

Computers and Aspirations for Scientific Change 20
Technologies and Organizational Change 28
The Co-construction of Science and Its Technologies 34
Constructing Science through Comminication 40
Rationale for an Ethnographic Approach to Cyberscience 50

Chapter 3: Computers and the Politics of Systematics 63

Intoducing the Field of Systematics 63
What on Earth? The Select Committee Report 66
Material and Virtual: The Adequacy of Digital Specimens and the Audiences for Availability 70
The Complex Political Geographies of Systematics 73
Automation and Expertise, Ease and Difficulty 75
Evocative Objects and the Branding of Initiatives 78
Historical Specificity 87

Chapter 4: Behind the Scenes and Across the Globe: Virtualizing the Material Culture of Systematics 99

Specimen Collection as Scientific Instruments 100
Specimen Images and Working Practices 112
The Organization of Digitizing 121
The Ordering of Objects and Accessibility 129
Systematics on Display 140
The Ambiguities of Digitization 145

Chapter 5: Communication and Disciplinarity 149

Imaging Changes in Communication Regimes 150
Systematics as a Culture of Communication 153
Taxacom and the Disciplinary Constitution 165
Conclusion 183

Chapter 6: Individuals, Institutions, Initiatives 187

Landscaping Contemporary Systematics: Institutions and Initiatives 190
New Initiatives and Old Institutions 195
Structuring Influences, and the Dance of Initiatives 211
The Practical Politics of Cyberscience 222
Individuals and the Recognition of Achievement 230
Conclusion 238

Chapter 7: Conclusion: Socially Meaningful Cyberscience 241

ICTs as Sensible Systematic Practice 241
Cyberscience, Change, and Specificity 247
Cyberscience as an Object of Policy 251
Cyberscience and STS Fieldwork 257


Appendix: Messages Sent to the Taxacom List Asking for Input 263
Notes 267
References 269
Series List 293
Index 297