clare's amst 603 wired bibliography
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The following metasites are either good scholarly resources for those interested in studies of science and technology and/or rich digital texts that one can critically examine. This is the beginning of a larger project that seeks to provide internet resources for examining how science and techology represent peoples, places, spaces and ideologies. For example, how do geographic information systems racialize, gender and class peoples within spatial contexts? Sources and topics of the following metasites range from a software development company to the National Library of Medicine, from internet portals about Actor-Network Theory to lesson plans about technology and globalization.
Understanding the Face of Globalization: Online
Internet Guide
The Center for International Education at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee has put together this metasite as a guide to internet
resources related to globalization. Links are organized according to 7
themes: globalization, economics, technology, culture, human rights,
environment, and resources. This site is good for exploring how various
institutions and organizations, such as United Nations and World Policy
Institute, address topics under these themes. This metasite is very much
geared towards informing educators how to teach such topics. Under
Resources, links for lesson plans are available. Of particular interest
to me are the globalization, technology, culture and human rights internet
resources. A critical examination of this metasite contributes to
scholarship that addresses the roles played by technology in
globalization, within conversations that include concerns for human
rights.
your Internet Guide to
Geographic Information
Systems
ESRI, a GIS software developer, created www.GIS.com. Designed for the GIS
community, this metasite provides information and resources to those
interested in how geographic information systems technologies can be
utilized in their work. It provides an introduction to GIS, complete with
a slideshow and report as to why Geography Matters. It includes articles
that address: What is GIS? How to use GIS? How to do GIS analysis? Why use
GIS? It links to sites that provide the basics on GIS, as well as sites
and search engines to Live Mapping Sites and free GIS
software.www.GIS.com also includes articles that address data use
issues
for GIS, such as the importance of data and the different types of data
and models. It links to various glossaries, directories, books and
periodicals, as well as associations and societies. It is very much
geared towards those unfamiliar with GIS technologies.
www.GIS.com is a good resource for critically examining how a technology that interfaces layers of dataor, in other words, representations of people, spaces and material possessionsis communicated to the novice GIS user public. This is especially intriguing to me as ESRI markets its products using urgent national security rhetoric.
Actor-Network
Theory at the University of Colorado-Denver
Martin Ryder at the University of Colorado-Denver has put together a site
of Actor-Network Theory readings and related resources. This metasite
asks What is Actor-Network Theory? and links to brief definitions from 13
different scholars, as well as links to each of these scholars complete
papers from which definitions were culled. Ryder provides links to
readings by or about 24 authors, such as Bruno Latour and Geoffrey
Bowker. For the novice, this site offers a good overview of Who's Who and
What's What in Actor-Network Theory. Ryder's site serves as a resource
for
those interested in how ANF informs interrogations of fact and Truth, how
Science establishes itself as an authority, and other questions of
knowledge production in the realm of science and technology.
Actor Network Resource: Thematic List at Lancaster
University, UK
Internet History of Science Sourcebook
The Visible Human Project
Junkscience.com
The Science Studies Centre at Lancaster University, UK organizes its
Actor-Network Theory citations according to 3 themes: theory, substantive
studies and related issues. Under theory, readings are categorized under
9 topics, such as: introductory, precursors; early theory; substantial
theoretical contributions; after actor-network. Under substantive
studies, citations are listed under 16 topics, such as: agency and
subjectivity, cartography and representation, gender, science,
spatialities and technologies. Related issues include difference and
fractionality, otherness, and performance. This site is useful for the
novice to ANT, in that it provides more than 100 bibliographic citations
organized in both alphabetical order and by theme. Those citations
published by the Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster University link
to full-text. This site functions as a good resource for those interested
in acquainting themselves with ANT scholarship. Especially useful is the
thematic categorization of resources, such that users can identify how
ANT
can inform analyses into specific topic areas.
Paul Halsall is the editor of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project
located at Fordham University. Halsall assembles links to full texts,
images, crib sheets according to a history of science that first looks at
the early sciences and mathematics of Ancient Near East, Egypt,
Greco-Roman Culture, Byzantium, Islam, Latin Christendom, China and
India. Next, Halsall categorizes links according to: the Scientific
Revolution; the Enlightenment; Classical Science; Industrial
Revolution; New Science; Science, Technology and the Transformation in the
Means of Production; and Moral Issues and Modern Science. This metasite
offers a look at how the history of Science can be conceptualized in terms
of its origins and present day concerns.
National Library of Medicine has put together a
metasite for The Visible
Human Project. NLM provides an overview of the Project, as well as links
to general information, publications, proceedings from Conferences, and
NLM initiatives. This site also links to applications for viewing images,
as well as sources for images and animations. Metasite users can take a
guided tour of the Visible Human and explore images from a variety of
vantage points. A critical analysis of this metasite contributes to
scholarship that asks how science studies the normal human body.
Junkman Steven J. Milloy is the publisher of
JunkScience.com. According this site, he is an adjunct scholar at the
Cato Institute and a columnist for FoxNews.com. He views science with a
skeptical eye, questioning the motivations of those who use information
and knowledge for social and political gain. Milloy includes links to
his commentaries about the latest science/medical/health news. This site
also links to news stories from various sources, such as The Guardian and
CO2 Science Magazine.
other bookmarked sites
Science
Magazine
World
Health
Organization
Univ. of
Texas Southwestern Library: Public
Health Resources
Ohio University Health Policy Metasite
