A fresh approach to visualization practices in the sciences that
considers novel forms of imaging technology and draws on recent
theoretical perspectives on representation. Representation in
Scientific Practice, published by the MIT Press in 1990, helped
coalesce a long-standing interest in scientific visualization among
historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science and remains a
touchstone for current investigations in science and technology
studies. This volume revisits the topic, taking into account both
the changing conceptual landscape of STS and the emergence of new
imaging technologies in scientific practice. It offers cutting-edge
research on a broad array of fields that study information as well
as short reflections on the evolution of the field by leading
scholars, including some of the contributors to the 1990 volume.
The essays consider the ways in which viewing experiences are
crafted in the digital era; the embodied nature of work with
digital technologies; the constitutive role of materials and
technologies-from chalkboards to brain scans-in the production of
new scientific knowledge; the metaphors and images mobilized by
communities of practice; and the status and significance of
scientific imagery in professional and popular culture.
Contributors Morana Alac, Michael Barany, Anne Beaulieu, Annamaria
Carusi, Catelijne Coopmans, Lorraine Daston, Sarah de Rijcke,
Joseph Dumit, Emma Frow, Yann Giraud, Aud Sissel Hoel, Martin Kemp,
Bruno Latour, John Law, Michael Lynch, Donald MacKenzie, Cyrus
Mody, Natasha Myers, Rachel Prentice, Arie Rip, Martin Ruivenkamp,
Lucy Suchman, Janet Vertesi, Steve Woolgar
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