Learning in a landscape: simulation-building as reflexive intervention
@article{Beaulieu2011LearningIA, title={Learning in a landscape: simulation-building as reflexive intervention}, author={Anne Beaulieu and Matt Ratto and Andrea Scharnhorst}, journal={Mind \& Society}, year={2011}, volume={12}, pages={91-112} }
This article makes a dual contribution to scholarship in science and technology studies (STS) on simulation-building. It both documents a specific simulation-building project, and demonstrates a concrete contribution of STS insights to interdisciplinary work. The article analyses the struggles that arise in the course of determining what counts as theory, as model and even as a simulation. Such debates are especially decisive when working across disciplinary boundaries, and their resolution is…
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