Re: [Fis] Scientific Communication and Publishing

2016-10-05 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear Mark, The redundancy is apophatic. Redundancy is not "given", but generation by the specification of a model: what is specified as a system. Redundancy can also be considered as options other than the ones realized. As we argued in our Kybernetes paper, technological developments may

Re: [Fis] Scientific Communication and Publishing

2016-10-05 Thread Mark Johnson
Dear Sergej, Rafeal, Loet, Dai and list, First of all, thank you very much for the references – Gieryn looks fascinating (thanks Loet), and I will check out the Hobart and Schiffman (thanks to Pedro). It always strikes me how powerful acts of intellectual generosity are, and how much difference