New Representation in Scientific Practice
New Representation in Scientific Practice
Deadline: May 30 2010
In 1990, MIT Press published Representation in Scientific Practice, edited by Michael Lynch and Steve Woolgar. The volume included papers by Bruno Latour, Karin Knorr-Cetina, John Law, and others on the then- emerging topic of visualization in science. The book’s treatment of the production and communication of visual images and other inscriptions in the sciences helped coalesce a long-standing interest in visualization in the history, philosophy and sociology of science.
Since then a new generation of Science Studies scholars has taken inspiration from many of the key essays in the book, and it still stands as a touchstone for current investigations.
However, the two decades since the publication of Representation in Scientific Practice have also seen important changes in visualization practices in the sciences. Current research on visualization in science explores novel forms of image production, from biomedical imaging such as MRI and PET scans, to digital image processing and on- screen interactions, to nanoscale tactile and haptic visualizations.
This research takes into account how massive datasets now demand new visualization tools and skills, and how simulation environments must be crafted in fields ranging from surgical theatres to robotics to cell biology. Efforts to articulate these developments have led scholars to explore theoretical themes and topics that were not central to the original volume, including identity, privacy and ownership, the digital and the analog, mobility, and embodiment.
As a result of these changes, both in representational practices in the sciences and in the theoretical treatment they receive within Science and Technology Studies, we believe that it is time for a New Representation in Scientific Practice, with Catelijne Coopmans and Janet Vertesi joining the original co-editors Lynch and Woolgar. We envision a collection of chapters by a new generation of scholars whose work on images is influential and dynamic, opening up novel avenues for research.
We are looking for studies of representation in scientific practice that touch on at least one topical area within the sciences. They could either engage novel representational practices or propose new ways of understanding well-known techniques or approaches. In their theoretical treatment of this subject matter, contributions must offer specific and novel implications for the study of imaging and scientific visualization, broadly conceived.
Potential contributors should email a 300-500 word abstract to repscipractice2@gmail.com
no later than May 30, 2010. Informal enquiries to this address are also welcome. Name and institutional affiliation of author(s) should be supplied with the abstract. Proposals will be reviewed by the editors, and authors will be notified by July 15, 2010. Those who are invited to submit a full paper for consideration will need to do so by October 1, 2010. Publication of the volume is expected in 2012.
Michael Lynch, Steve Woolgar, Janet Vertesi, Catelijne Coopmans
Janet Vertesi
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Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Informatics Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine http://www.ics.uci.edu/
http://janet.vertesi.com/
Deadline: May 30 2010
In 1990, MIT Press published Representation in Scientific Practice, edited by Michael Lynch and Steve Woolgar. The volume included papers by Bruno Latour, Karin Knorr-Cetina, John Law, and others on the then- emerging topic of visualization in science. The book’s treatment of the production and communication of visual images and other inscriptions in the sciences helped coalesce a long-standing interest in visualization in the history, philosophy and sociology of science.
Since then a new generation of Science Studies scholars has taken inspiration from many of the key essays in the book, and it still stands as a touchstone for current investigations.
However, the two decades since the publication of Representation in Scientific Practice have also seen important changes in visualization practices in the sciences. Current research on visualization in science explores novel forms of image production, from biomedical imaging such as MRI and PET scans, to digital image processing and on- screen interactions, to nanoscale tactile and haptic visualizations.
This research takes into account how massive datasets now demand new visualization tools and skills, and how simulation environments must be crafted in fields ranging from surgical theatres to robotics to cell biology. Efforts to articulate these developments have led scholars to explore theoretical themes and topics that were not central to the original volume, including identity, privacy and ownership, the digital and the analog, mobility, and embodiment.
As a result of these changes, both in representational practices in the sciences and in the theoretical treatment they receive within Science and Technology Studies, we believe that it is time for a New Representation in Scientific Practice, with Catelijne Coopmans and Janet Vertesi joining the original co-editors Lynch and Woolgar. We envision a collection of chapters by a new generation of scholars whose work on images is influential and dynamic, opening up novel avenues for research.
We are looking for studies of representation in scientific practice that touch on at least one topical area within the sciences. They could either engage novel representational practices or propose new ways of understanding well-known techniques or approaches. In their theoretical treatment of this subject matter, contributions must offer specific and novel implications for the study of imaging and scientific visualization, broadly conceived.
Potential contributors should email a 300-500 word abstract to repscipractice2@gmail.com
no later than May 30, 2010. Informal enquiries to this address are also welcome. Name and institutional affiliation of author(s) should be supplied with the abstract. Proposals will be reviewed by the editors, and authors will be notified by July 15, 2010. Those who are invited to submit a full paper for consideration will need to do so by October 1, 2010. Publication of the volume is expected in 2012.
Michael Lynch, Steve Woolgar, Janet Vertesi, Catelijne Coopmans
Janet Vertesi
______________________________________________
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Informatics Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine http://www.ics.uci.edu/
http://janet.vertesi.com/