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Memory practices in the sciences

by Geoffrey C. Bowker · 2005

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The ways we hold knowledge about the past shapes how we tell stories about it. Bowker looks at the relation of our information structures to our information and maintains that over the past 200 years information technology has converged with the nature and production of scientific knowledge.

Knowledge representation (Information theory)SciencePhilosophyKnowledge, Theory ofTheory of KnowledgeInformation technologyScience, philosophyReprésentation des connaissancesConnaissance, Théorie de laSciencesPhilosophieTechnologie de l'information