Memory practices in the sciences
By: Geoffrey C. Bowker.
Series: Inside technology
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Knowledge representation (Information theory); Knowledge, Theory of.; Science -- Philosophy.; Science -- Information technology.
Description: The ways we hold knowledge about the past shapes how we tell stories about it. Bowker looks at the relation of our information structures to our information and maintains that over the past 200 years information technology has converged with the nature and production of scientific knowledge.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.