Virtual knowledge :  experimenting in the humanities and the social sciences / 
edited by Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Sally Wyatt. 
 - Cambridge, Massachusetts :    The MIT Press,   2013 
 - viii, 262 pages :   illustrations ;   24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Authority and expertise in new sites of knowledge production / Anne Beaulieu, Sarah de Rijcke and Bas van Heur -- Working in virtual knowledge : affective labor in scholarly collaboration / Smiljana Antonijević, Stefan Dormans and Sally Wyatt -- Exploring uncertainty in knowledge representations : classifications, simulations and models of the world / Matthijs Kouw, Charles van den Heuvel and Andrea Scharnhorst -- Virtually visual : the visual rhetoric of GIS in policy making / Rebecca Moody, Matthijs Kouw and Victor Bekkers -- Sloppy data floods or precise social science methodologies? : dilemmas in the transition to data-intensive research in sociology and economics / Clement Levallois, Stephanie Steinmetz and Paul Wouters -- Openness in scholarly communication : conceptual framework and challenges to innovation / Clifford Tatum and Nicholas W. Jankowski -- Virtual knowledge in family history : visionary technologies, research dreams and research agendas / Jan Kok and Paul Wouters. 
<br/><br/> An examination of emerging forms of knowledge creation using Web-based technologies, analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective.<br/><br/>Today we are witnessing dramatic changes in the way scientific and scholarly knowledge is created, codified, and communicated. This transformation is connected to the use of digital technologies and the virtualization of knowledge. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines consider just what, if anything, is new when knowledge is produced in new ways. Does knowledge itself change when the tools of knowledge acquisition, representation, and distribution become digital?<br/><br/>Issues of knowledge creation and dissemination go beyond the development and use of new computational tools. The book, which draws on work from the Virtual Knowledge Studio, brings together research on scientific practice, infrastructure, and technology. Focusing on issues of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, the contributors discuss who can be considered legitimate knowledge creators, the value of "invisible" labor, the role of data visualization in policy making, the visualization of uncertainty, the conceptualization of openness in scholarly communication, data floods in the social sciences, and how expectations about future research shape research practices. The contributors combine an appreciation of the transformative power of the virtual with a commitment to the empirical study of practice and use. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262517911 (paperback) 0262517914 (paperback) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Humanidades digitales <br/>Ciencias sociales --Innovaciones tecnológicas <br/>Humanidades --Investigaciones<br/>Visualización de la información <br/>Teoría del conocimiento
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>AZ 195  / V819 2013