Virtual Knowledge
Wouters, Paul (Leiden University) / Beaulieu, Anne (GESP- RUG) / Scharnhorst, Andrea / Wyatt, Sally (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)) Today we are witnessing dramatic changes in the way scientific and scholarly knowledge is created, codified, and communicated. This transformation is connected to the use of digital technologies and the virtualization of knowledge. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines consider just what, if anything, is new when knowledge is produced in new ways. Does knowledge itself change when the tools of knowledge acquisition, representation...