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[Vince Smith](http://vsmith.info/) alerted me to \"Systematics as
Cyberscience\", by Christine Hine, whose work [I\'ve mentioned
earlier](http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2006/11/politics-and-practice-of-accessibility.html).
Looks like an interesting read. From the publisher\'s blurb:  

> The use of information and communication technology in scientific
> research has been hailed as the means to a new larger-scale, more
> efficient, and cost-effective science. But although scientists
> increasingly use computers in their work and institutions have made
> massive investments in technology, we still have little idea how
> computing affects the way scientists work and the kind of knowledge
> they produce. In Systematics as Cyberscience, Christine Hine explores
> these questions by examining the developing use of information and
> communication technology in one discipline, systematics (which focuses
> on the classification and naming of organisms and exploration of
> evolutionary relationships). Her sociological study of the ways that
> biologists working in this field have engaged with new technology is
> an account of how one of the oldest branches of science transformed
> itself into one of the newest and became a cyberscience.


Vince Smith alerted me to "Systematics as Cyberscience", by Christine Hine, whose work I've mentioned earlier. Looks like an interesting read.

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