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The use of information and communication technology in scientific research has 

been hailed as the means to a new larger-scale, more efficient, and cost-

effective science. But although scientists increasingly use computers in their 

work and institutions have made massive investments in technology, we still have 

little idea how computing affects the way scientists work and the kind of 

knowledge they produce. In Systematics as Cyberscience, Christine Hine explores 

these questions by examining the developing use of information and communication 

technology in one discipline, systematics (which focuses on the classification 

and naming of organisms and exploration of evolutionary relationships). Her 

sociological study of the ways that biologists working in this field have 

engaged with new technology is an account of how one of the oldest branches of 

science transformed itself into one of the newest and became a cyberscience.



Table Of Contents



Acknowledgments ix

1 Introducing the Study of a Cyberscience 1

2 Science, ICTs, and the Imagining of Change 19

3 Computers and the Politics of Systematics 63

4 Behind the Scenes and Across the Globe: Virtualizing

the Material Culture of Systematics 99

5 Communication and Disciplinarity 149

6 Individuals, Institutions, Initiatives 187

7 Conclusion: Socially Meaningful Cyberscience 241

Appendix: Messages Sent to the Taxacom List Asking for Input 263

Notes 267

References 269

Series List 293



Product Details



    * ISBN: 026208371X

    * ISBN-13: 9780262083713

    * Format: Hardcover, 307pp

    * Publisher: MIT Press

    * Pub. Date: March 2008



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