Virtual Knowledge : Experimenting in the Humanities and the Social Sciences.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Virtual Knowledge -- The Changing Research Context -- The Emergence of Virtual Knowledge -- Outline of the Book and Common Themes -- References -- Chapter 1: Authority and Expertise in New Sites of Knowledge Production -- Expertise and Authority -- Institutional-Infrastructural Reproduction and Innovation -- Three Dimensions of Knowledge Production -- Authorizing Actors and the Tropenmuseum's Networked Image Database -- Re-Negotiating Authority -- Authorizing Empirical Encounters in Flickr -- Validation of Knowledge Claims and Expertise in the Cultural Biography of Maastricht -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2: Working in Virtual Knowledge -- The Changing Nature of Labor and Scholarly Work in the Digital Age -- Introducing the Cases -- Care Work -- Articulation Work -- Persuasion Work -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Exploring Uncertainty in Knowledge Representations -- Uncertainty in the Natural Sciences, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences -- Examples: Uncertainty in Representations of the World -- Strategies for E-Research and the Need for Experiments with Interfaces, Interactions, and &lt -- odels -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Virtually Visual -- Visual Culture and Visuality -- Geographic Information Systems -- Policy Design -- Case Studies -- Analysis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Sloppy Data Floods or Precise Social Science Methodologies? -- New Forms of Data Collection and Analysis in Sociology -- What Are the Implications for the Field? -- Neuroimaging Data in Economics -- What Are the Implications for the Field? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Beyond Open Access -- Situating Openness and Scholarly Communication -- Changes in the Role of Scholarly Communication -- Analytical Framework of Openness.

Formal Scholarly Communication -- Informal Scholarly Communication -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Virtual Knowledge in Family History -- The Role of Dreams in Research -- Dreams and Practices of Computational Family History -- Notes -- References -- About the Authors -- Index.

An examination of emerging forms of knowledge creation using Web-based technologies, analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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