[Air-l] Re: e-science, the grid, and supercomputers

[Ulf Reips]

At 10:05 Uhr +0100 29.9.2003, Christine Hine wrote:
>...
>the job done. The aim is to have some kind of map of what is going on,
>in order to explore what I'm thinking of as the shaping of cyberscience.
>
>The developments that I'm seeing in systematics are not grid computing
>but do fit within some people's definitions of e-science...... I'm
>certainly seeing that none of these terms are being used innocently and
>it's important not to buy into these terms uncritically. I'd be really
>interested to hear from anyone who has thoughts on the birth and growth
>of e-science, grid science etc at the policy level.

Hi Christine,
you might be interested in what a few colleagues and I call "Internet 
Science" (or i-science). The community of people (mostly from 
German-speaking countries) who call themselves Internet scientists 
all have one or several of the following four aims in doing their 
research:
1. Use the Internet as a tool for doing research (Web experiments; 
online surveys; non-reactive methods)
2. Study Internet-specific ("online") behavior
3. Study techniques for and characteristics of online methods (often 
in comparison with "offline" methods, identifying factors that may 
lead to different results)
4. Study offline methods using online studies

Some of us have published in English as well, see for example 
"Dimensions of Internet Science" 
(http://www.genpsy.unizh.ch/reips/dis/), if you would  like to read 
further.

Best wishes,
--ur