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Informationen zum Autor Alan G. Gross work is firmly grounded in the humanities, having been trained as a Shakespeare scholar at Princeton under Gerald Eades Bentley. In a long career, he has been an English professor at Wayne State, a Dean at Purdue-Calumet, and professor of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. In the last quarter-century, he has written and co-written a steady stream of major-press books on academic communication.Joseph E. Harmon works as a science writer, editor, and manager at Argonne National Laboratory. He is the coauthor with Alan Gross of Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present, The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour, The Craft of Scientific Communication, and Science from Sight to Insight: How Scientists Illustrate Meaning. Klappentext In The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities, Alan G. Gross and Joseph E. Harmon capture and analyze the work of a small army of innovative scholars and scientists, all of whom have exploited the opportunities the Internet affords, to share with colleagues claims to new knowledge with stronger arguments supported by firmer evidence. Zusammenfassung The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities takes a new look at C.P. Snow's distinction between the two cultures, a distinction that provides the driving force for a book that contends that the Internet revolution has sown the seeds for transformative changes in both the sciences and the humanities. It is because of this common situation that the humanities can learn from the sciences, as well as the sciences from the humanities, in matters central to both: generating, evaluating, and communicating knowledge on the Internet. In a succession of chapters, the authors deal with the state of the art in web-based journal articles and books, web sites, peer review, and post-publication review. In the final chapter, they address the obstacles the academy and scientific organizations face in taking full advantage of the Internet: outmoded tenure and promotion procedures, the cost of open access, and restrictive patent and copyright law. They also argue that overcoming these obstacles does not require revolutionary institutional change. In their view, change must be incremental, making use of the powers and prerogatives scientific and academic organizations already have. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: The Internet and the Two Cultures Ideal Types The Scientific Culture and Scientist as Ideal Type The Humanistic Culture and Humanist as Ideal Type The Sciences and Humanities Transformed The Book Itself The Audience Chapter 2: The Scientific Article: What's New Revolution or Evolution? A Survey of the Web Article Increasing Accessibility The Changing Nature of Authorship Coping with Complexity Increasing Inter- and Intra-textuality Including Reader Comments and Reader Statistics Enhancing Visualization Internet Visualization and the Science of Shape Birth of a Science of Shape The Mathematical Visualization of Shape Science of Shape and the Internet Conclusion Chapter 3: The Internet Humanities Essay: Seeing and Hearing Anew Historians See Anew Photographs as Historical Evidence Art as Historical Evidence Reinterpreting the Civil War: The Role of Visualization Meeting the Challenge of Urban History: A Multi-Media Los Angeles Re-imagining the Roman Forum: Vision as Hypothesis Musicians See and Hear Anew Film Scholars See Anew Conclusion Chapter 4: Archival Web Sites in the Humanities and Sciences Web Sites That Provide Resources for Scholarship Web Sites That Store Data for Scientific Research Web Sites That Store Scientific or Scholarly Papers Web Sites That Create Knowledge Through Volunteer Participation Web Sites That Codify Existing Knowledge Conclusion Chapt...
