A New Science for Future - Climate Impact Modeling and the Quest for Digital Openness

Building on concepts from Science & Technology Studies, Simon David Hirsbrunner investigates practices and infrastructures of computer modeling and science communication in climate impact research. The book characterizes how scientists calculate future climate risks in computer models and scenarios, but also how they circulate their insights and make them accessible and comprehensible to others. By discussing elements such as infrastructures, visualizations, models, software and data, the chapters show how computational modeling practices are currently changing in light of digital transformations and expectations for an open science. A number of inventive research devices are proposed to capture both the fluidity and viscosity of contemporary digital technology.

About the author

Simon David Hirsbrunner ist Medienwissenschaftler und Senior Researcher in der Forschungsgruppe »Human-Centered Computing« an der Freien Universität Berlin.

Summary

Building on concepts from Science & Technology Studies, Simon David Hirsbrunner investigates practices and infrastructures of computer modeling and science communication in climate impact research. The book characterizes how scientists calculate future climate risks in computer models and scenarios, but also how they circulate their insights and make them accessible and comprehensible to others. By discussing elements such as infrastructures, visualizations, models, software and data, the chapters show how computational modeling practices are currently changing in light of digital transformations and expectations for an open science. A number of inventive research devices are proposed to capture both the fluidity and viscosity of contemporary digital technology.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Hirsbrunner, Simon David Hirsbrunner
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2021
• EAN: 9783837652659
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-5265-9
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 20 mm x 233 mm
• Weight: 423 g
• Illustrations: 29 schw.-w. u. 33 farb. Abb.
• Series: Locating Media/Situierte Medien
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Simulation, Image, Geowissenschaften, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Wissenschaft, Technologie und Gesellschaft, Media, Media Studies, Digitalization, Digital Media, Society, Sociology of Media, Sociology of Technology, Climate Change, Social interaction, Sociology of Science, Knowledge, The arts, Ethnography, auseinandersetzen, Open Science, Sociology and anthropology, Culture and institutions, Factors affecting social behavior, Groups of people, Data processing and computer science, Computer art (Digital art)