Working on the Web & Worm: Online Scientific Communities, 1991 - present

This paper attempts to take a historical approach to look at the changes that scientific communities face over the Internet. It argues that technological development and the changing perceptions over the meanings surrounding the Internet have led to wider participation in generating, preserving and...

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Main Author: Singh, Deepak Sona
Other Authors: Hallam Stevens
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2016
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-686232019-12-10T14:32:56Z Working on the Web & Worm: Online Scientific Communities, 1991 - present Singh, Deepak Sona Hallam Stevens School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities This paper attempts to take a historical approach to look at the changes that scientific communities face over the Internet. It argues that technological development and the changing perceptions over the meanings surrounding the Internet have led to wider participation in generating, preserving and collaboration of scientific knowledge over the Internet. This paper investigates 2 particular case studies from 1991 to 1995 and 2007 to present. These 2 case studies seemingly do not have any links present between them. But this paper will attempt to uncover the intangible links that exist between both of these scientific communities. In doing so, it will account for the rise of citizen scientists who are empowered through the phenomenon of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding to solve scientific problems that these online scientific communities in question are looking to answer. This trend of the discipline of Science becoming more inclusive over the online network raises questions about the emergence of Science 2.0 and its effects on the world. Bachelor of Arts in History 2016-05-30T03:30:13Z 2016-05-30T03:30:13Z 2016 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/68623 en 66 p. application/pdf
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Working on the Web & Worm: Online Scientific Communities, 1991 - present
description This paper attempts to take a historical approach to look at the changes that scientific communities face over the Internet. It argues that technological development and the changing perceptions over the meanings surrounding the Internet have led to wider participation in generating, preserving and collaboration of scientific knowledge over the Internet. This paper investigates 2 particular case studies from 1991 to 1995 and 2007 to present. These 2 case studies seemingly do not have any links present between them. But this paper will attempt to uncover the intangible links that exist between both of these scientific communities. In doing so, it will account for the rise of citizen scientists who are empowered through the phenomenon of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding to solve scientific problems that these online scientific communities in question are looking to answer. This trend of the discipline of Science becoming more inclusive over the online network raises questions about the emergence of Science 2.0 and its effects on the world.
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title Working on the Web & Worm: Online Scientific Communities, 1991 - present
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