Article ID: CBB001550700

Introduction: “Knowledge/Value” (2014)

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Farquhar, Judith (Author)
Sunder Rajan, Kaushik (Author)


East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 8, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 383-389


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Lead Article in a Series: Knowledge/Value
Language: English

The articles in this collection were presented at the third conference in a series of conferences under the broad rubric “knowledge/value.” This conference, held at the University of Chicago's Beijing Center, was on the topic “Information, Databases, and Archives.”1 The articles collected here, all reporting on research in Asia, focus on the forms through which collective and public knowledge is rendered as information of a systematic, comparable, and collectively useful kind. Information models and metaphors that have become hegemonic in molecular biology are accompanied in the contemporary era by the botanical and zoological databases of the environmental sciences, by digital humanities analyses of writing, and by artificial intelligence systems that help users manage an excess of knowledge and put .it to partial use. By virtue of new information-management technologies, multiple archives accumulated in diverse histories are ever more accessible to some users, while at the same time the very structure of our retrieval tools buries some elements of these archives ever more deeply in obscurity. The ways in which tools such as databases generate new knowledge within the constraints of market and government agendas is an important aspect of a global “informationalization” process that is far advanced, perhaps especially in India and China. The articles in this issue explore some of the new terrains of knowledge revealed in these processes.

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Includes Series Articles

Article Gaudilliére, Jean-Paul (2014) An Indian Path to Biocapital? The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, Drug Patents, and the Reformulation Regime of Contemporary Ayurveda. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 391-415). unapi

Article Farquhar, Judith; Lai, Lili (2014) Information and Its Practical Other: Crafting Zhuang Nationality Medicine. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 417-437). unapi

Article Fish, Allison (2014) Authorizing Yoga: The Pragmatics of Cultural Stewardship in the Digital Era. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 439-460). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jaynes, Jeffrey
Mikihito Tanaka
Jarrige, François
Zhongguo ke pu yan jiu suo
Cardoso de Matos, Ana
Raza, Gauhar
Concepts
Science and culture
Public understanding of science
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
Public understanding of technology
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Astronomy
Time Periods
Ancient
20th century
19th century
18th century
4th century
5th century
Places
China
India
United States
Greece
Europe
Egypt
Institutions
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France
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