Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination
How Virtual Evidence Shapes Science in the Making and in the News
Seiten
2013
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-7556-9 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-7556-9 (ISBN)
The book investigates the rhetorical nature of scientific computer simulations, and it discusses the implications of those rhetorical strategies for how we understand, use and evaluate simulated evidence in the real world.
Computer simulations help advance climatology, astrophysics, and other scientific disciplines. They are also at the crux of several high-profile cases of science in the news. How do simulation scientists, with little or no direct observations, make decisions about what to represent? What is the nature of simulated evidence, and how do we evaluate its strength? Aimee Kendall Roundtree suggests answers in Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination. She interprets simulations in the sciences by uncovering the argumentative strategies that underpin the production and dissemination of simulated findings. She also explains how subjective and social influences do not diminish simulations’ virtue or power to represent the real thing. Along the way, Roundtree situates computer simulations within the scientific imagination alongside paradoxes, thought experiments, and metaphors. A cogent rhetorical analysis, Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination engages scholars of the rhetoric of science, technology, and new and digital media, but it is also accessible to the general public interested in debates over hurricane preparedness and climate change.
Computer simulations help advance climatology, astrophysics, and other scientific disciplines. They are also at the crux of several high-profile cases of science in the news. How do simulation scientists, with little or no direct observations, make decisions about what to represent? What is the nature of simulated evidence, and how do we evaluate its strength? Aimee Kendall Roundtree suggests answers in Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination. She interprets simulations in the sciences by uncovering the argumentative strategies that underpin the production and dissemination of simulated findings. She also explains how subjective and social influences do not diminish simulations’ virtue or power to represent the real thing. Along the way, Roundtree situates computer simulations within the scientific imagination alongside paradoxes, thought experiments, and metaphors. A cogent rhetorical analysis, Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination engages scholars of the rhetoric of science, technology, and new and digital media, but it is also accessible to the general public interested in debates over hurricane preparedness and climate change.
Aimee Kendall Roundtree is associate professor of Professional Writing and Technical Communication at the University of Houston-Downtown.
Chapter 1: Why Computer Simulations Need Rhetorical Intervention
Chapter 2: The Rhetorical Situation of Simulations
Chapter 3: Simulations and the Scientific Imagination
Chapter 4: Rhetorical Strategies of Simulated Evidence
Chapter 5: Social Dimensions of Simulated Meaning
Chapter 6: The Rhetoric of Simulations in the News
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 160 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 358 g |
Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium |
Naturwissenschaften | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7391-7556-4 / 0739175564 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7391-7556-9 / 9780739175569 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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