Introduction: Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited

Abstract

This introductory chapter sets out the theme of representation in scientific practice, and addresses why it remains such a vibrant topic for research in and beyond science and technology studies. The chapter draws particular attention to shifts in the content, context and concepts of inquiry that have occurred since the first volume to bear the name Representation in Scientific Practice, which was edited by Lynch and Woolgar and published by MIT Press in 1990. Like the earlier volume, this new collection of studies includes ethnographic, historical and discourse-analytic approaches to scientific knowledge-making. It revisits representation in scientific practice not only by focusing on novel technologies, sciences, and institutional arrangements that have emerged in recent decades, but also by respecifying recurrent themes in light of novel conceptual and institutional loci for interrogating those themes.

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