Systematics as Cyberscience: Computers, Change, and Continuity in Science. 2008. 12 illustr. X, 307 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

The use of information and communication technology in scientificresearch 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 this book, the author explores these questions by examining the developing use of information and communication technologyin one discipline, systematics. Her sociological study of the ways thatbiologists working in this field have engaged with new technology is anaccount of how one of the oldest branches of science transformed itself into one of the newest and became a cyberscience.