Visualization in the Age of Computerization [Hardcover]

Digitalization and computerization are now pervasive in science. This has deep consequences for our understanding of scientific knowledge and of the scientific process, and challenges longstanding assumptions and traditional frameworks of thinking of scientific knowledge. Digital media and computational processes challenge our conception of the way in which perception and cognition work in science, of the objectivity of science, and the nature of scientific objects. They bring about new relationships between science, art and other visual media, and new ways of practicing science and organizing scientific work, especially as new visual media are being adopted by science studies scholars in their own practice. This volume reflects on how scientists use images in the computerization age, and how digital technologies are affecting the study of science.

Introduction  Annamaria Carusi, Aud Sissel Hoel, Timothy Webmoor and Steve Woolgar  Part One: Visualization in the Age of Computerization  1. Algorithmic Alchemy, or the Work of Code in the Age of Computerized Visualization  Timothy Webmoor  2. From Spade-Work to Screen-Work: New Forms of Archaeological Discovery in Digital Space  Matt Edgeworth  3. British Columbia Mapped: Geology, Indigeneity, and Land in the Age of Digital Cartography  Tom Schilling  4. Redistributing Representational Work: Tracing a Material Multidisciplinary Link  David Ribes  5. Making the Strange Familiar: Nanotechnology Images and Their Imagined Futures  Michael Lynch and Kathryn de Ridder-Vignone  6. Objectivity and Representative Practices Across Artistic and Scientific Visualization  Chiara Ambrosio  lC6