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ISR is a quarterly journal that aims to set contemporary and historical developments in the sciences and technology into their wider social and cultural context and to illuminate their interrelations with the humanities and arts. It seeks out contributions that measure up to the highest excellence in scholarship but that also speak to an audience of intelligent non-specialists. It actively explores the differing trajectories of the disciplines and practices in its purview, to clarify what each is attempting to do in its own terms, so that constructive dialogue across them is strengthened. It focuses whenever possible on conceptual bridge-building and collaborative research that nevertheless respect disciplinary variation. ISR features thematic issues on broad topics attractive across the disciplines and publishes special issues derived from wide-ranging interdisciplinary colloquia and conferences.

Thursday, 10 May 2012

Now available for review: Understanding Knowledge Creation: Intellectuals in Academia, the public Sphere and the Arts (2012). Edited by Nikita Basov and Oleksandra Nenko. Please contact Julianne Nyhan directly if you are interested in reviewing this book and have relevant expertise.  


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Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Editorial Board Member presents "Materials: How they Work" on BBC 4

ISR Editorial Board Member, Professor Mark Miodownik, is presenting a television series entitled, “Materials: How they Work” which is currently being broadcast on BBC 4. In the first programme, “Metal: How it works”, Mark travelled to Israel and learned how we first extracted copper from dull rock and used it to shape our world. He revealed how our eternal quest for lighter, stronger metals led us to forge hard, sharp steel from malleable iron and to create complex alloys in order to conquer the skies. You can still view this episode, along with Episode 2, "Plastic: How it Works", for a limited time at the following link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fm490

The final episode in the series, entitled "Ceramics: How They Work", is to be broadcast on Monday 16th April 2012 on BBC4. Don't miss it!
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Wednesday, 29 February 2012

For review: Paradata and Transparency in Virtual Heritage

Now available for review: Paradata and Transparency in Virtual Heritage by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Hugh Denard and Drew Baker, King's College London, UK (Ashgate 2012). Please contact Julianne Nyhan directly if you are interested in reviewing this book and have relevant expertise.   


Paradata and Transparency in Virtual Heritage
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ISR Reviewer spotlight: Toma Tasovac


Toma Tasovac is currently reviewing for ISR e-Lexicography: The Internet, Digital Initiatives and Lexicography, edited by Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera and Henning Bergenholtz (Comtinuum, 2011) 

ISBN: 9781441128065 






Toma Tasovac is the director of the Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities (http://humanistika.org), and chief programmer and editor of Transpoetika: A Digital Platform for Serbian Language and Literature (http://transpoetika.org). He has degrees in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Harvard and Comparative Literature from Princeton.  Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in Digital Arts and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin.  His research interests include complex lexical architectures in eLexicography, retrodigitization of historic dictionaries, and integration of digital libraries and language resources.  Toma is equally active in the field of new media education, regularly teaching seminars and workshops in Germany, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. He blogs at http://metapoetika.org and tweets as @ttasovac. 

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Monday, 20 February 2012

ISR Reviewer spotlight: Graham McBeath

Graham McBeath is currently at work on a review of Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory, edited by Bruce Clarke and Mark B.N. Hansen (Duke University Press: 2009). Graham is senior lecturer in Sociology and Media at the University of Northampton and has particular interests in the history and development of cybernetics. His review will be published in ISR later this year and a summary of it will be posted here too.  


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Thursday, 16 February 2012

Lancashire's 'Forgetful Muses' available for review

ISR has recently received a copy of Forgetful Muses: reading the author in the text by Ian Lancashire. Please contact Julianne Nyhan directly if you are able and willing to review this book and have expertise in this topic.

Forgetful Muses: Reading the Author in the Text

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Friday, 10 February 2012

Explore the 2011 issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews!

Explore the first 2011 issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews completely free of charge! We have made the first 2011 issue of each of our journals free to read on ingentaconnect - no sign up required!

Table of Contents


  • Enigma rebus: Prolegomena to an archaeology of algorithmic artefact, David Link


  • Schoenberg, serialism and cognition: Whose fault if No one listens?, Philip Ball

  • Interdisciplinarity as critical Inquiry: Visualizing the Art/Bioscience interface, Andrew S Yang


  • Socio-Cultural characteristics of usability of bioinformatics databases and tools, Conor Douglas; Rebecca Goulding; Lily Farris; Janet Atkinson-Grosjean


  • Placebo: no longer a phantom response, Charles Pasternak


  • ESSAY REVIEW: Excavating the Future: Taking an `Archaeological' approach to technology, James G R Cronin

      • Don't forget, you can also download two of the new 2012 "top articles" here:
      http://www.maney.co.uk/top_articles/isr/
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