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Paul Wouters

Paul Wouters is Professor of Scientometrics and Director of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University.

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Virtual Knowledge

Experimenting in the Humanities and the Social Sciences
Edited by Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst and Sally Wyatt

Today we are witnessing dramatic changes in the way scientific and scholarly knowledge is created, codified, and communicated. This transformation is connected to the use of digital technologies and the virtualization of knowledge. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines consider just what, if anything, is new when knowledge is produced in new ways. Does knowledge itself change when the tools of knowledge acquisition, representation, and distribution become digital?