Finnegan, Ruth
Participating in the Knowledge Society
1. Introduction: Looking Beyond the Walls
1. Introduction: Looking Beyond the Walls
Ruth Finnegan
Part I. Looking Back
2. To the Heavens in Rural Lancashire: Jeremiah Horrocks and His Circle, and the Foundation of British Astronomical Research
Allan Chapman
3. Collectors Harnessed: Research on the British Flora by Nineteenth-Century Amateur Botanists
David E. Allen
4. Scientific Inquiry and the Missionary Enterprise
David N. Livingstone
5. Listening and Learning? Audiences and Their Roles in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Sophie Forgan
6. Locating Industrial Research: Universities, Firms and the State, 1916–39
Keith Vernon
Part II. Outside and Across the Walls
7. A Brief History of Field Archaeology in the UK: The Academy, the Profession and the Amateur
Alexander J. Hunt
8. Inside-Out or Outside-In? The Case of Family and Local History
Michael Drake
9. Community Historians and Their Work Around the Millennium
John H. McKay
10. Researching Ourselves? The Mass-Observation Project
Dorothy Sheridan
11. Science With a Team of Thousands: The British Trust for Ornithology
Jeremy J. D. Greenwood
12. Think Tanks and Intellectual Authority Outside the University: Information Technocracy or Republic of Letters?
Dolan Cummings
Part III. Openings and Challenges through the Web?
13. Everyday Domestic Research in the Knowledge Society: How Ordinary People Use Information and Communication Technologies to Participate
Ben Anderson
14. Building Knowledge through Debate:
Caspar Melville
15. Blogging: Personal Participation in Public Knowledge-Building on the Web
Mark Brady
16. Using the Internet as a Research Tool: Between Information and Communication
William Davies
Part IV. Reflections: Are There Lessons for the Present?
17. Research, Universities and the Knowledge Society
Frank Webster
18. Re-opening Research: New Amateurs or New Professionals?
Ronald Barnett
Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Sociology, general, Science, general, Social Theory, Higher Education
- Author(s)
- Finnegan, Ruth
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2005
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 306 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230523043
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-51996-5