Technology, History

Systematics as Cyberscience: Computers, Change, and Continuity in Science

Name: Systematics as Cyberscience: Computers, Change, and Continuity in Science
Author: Christine Hine
ISBN: 9780262083713

by Christine Hine

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Synopsis

An exploration of the use of information and communication technologies by biologists working in systematics (taxonomy) and the dynamics of change and continuity with past practices in the development of systematics as a cyberscience.

About the Author, Christine Hine

Christine Hine is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey. She is the author of Virtual Ethnography.

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Book Details

Published

March 1, 2008

Publisher

MIT Press

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

9780262083713

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