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What Are Science And Technology?
Sometimes known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, this historic moment has inspired a growing consensus that latest developments in science and technology are of a novel nature, and more likely to impact nearly every facet of our every day lives. Aud Sissel Hoel is Professor of Media Studies and Visual Culture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her analysis, which combines principle improvement and empirical case studies, issues the roles of devices and tools in knowledge and being, notably pictures and visualization. Recently Hoel accomplished an interdisciplinary analysis project on brain images, and presently she is conducting a Marie Skłodowska-Curie project on image-guided surgery at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Hoel has printed widely in the overlapping fields of visual tradition, science research and media philosophy.
The standing of the remaining 4 categories is way less clear, nevertheless, partly because they are less familiar, or not at all, from the properly-explored context of science. Of these classes, Vincenti claims that they symbolize prescriptive types of information quite than descriptive ones. Here, the exercise of design introduces an element of normativity, which is absent from scientific data. Take such a primary notion as ‘operational … Read More
