Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited

Representation in Scientific Practice, published by the MIT Pressin 1990, helped coalesce a long-standing interest in scientific visualization among historians,philosophers, and sociologists of science and remains a touchstone for current investigations inscience and technology studies. This volume revisits the topic, taking into account both thechanging conceptual landscape of STS and the emergence of new imaging technologies in scientificpractice. It offers cutting-edge research on a broad array of fields that study information as wellas short reflections on the evolution of the field by leading scholars, including some of thecontributors to the 1990 volume.

The essays consider the ways in which viewingexperiences are crafted in the digital era; the embodied nature of work with digital technologies;the constitutive role of materials and technologies -- from chalk oards to brain scans -- in theproduction of new scientific knowledge; the metaphors and images mobilized by communities ofpractice; and the status and significance of scientific imagery in professional and popular culture.

ContributorsMorana 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, JanetVertesi, Steve Woolgar

Catelijne Coopmans is a Fellow and Director of Studies at Tembusu College and a Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore.