Archive for December, 2009



World Wide Research RESHAPING THE SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES Edited by William H. Dutton and Paul W. Jeffreys Foreword by Ian Goldin Available from MIT Press CONTRIBUTORS: Hal Abelson, Robert Ackland, Roger Barga, Tim Berners-Lee, Christine L. Borgman, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Alan Bowman, João Caraça, Gustavo Cardoso, Annamaria Carusi, Paul A. David, Grace de la Flor, [...]

In a castle in a remote village of Dagstuhl, Germany, about a dozen colleagues from the social and computer sciences debated the role that information and communication technologies could play in shaping democratic structures and processes. We co-produced a long set of notes, and then sought to edit this down to a brief overview of [...]