Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities

by Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder

Book Overview

An examination of the ways that digital and networked technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in disciplines from astronomy to literary analysis.

In Knowledge Machines, Eric Meyer and Ralph Schroeder argue that digital technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Meyer and Schroeder show that digital tools and data, used collectively and in distributed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262028743
• ISBN13: 9780262028745
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher