Christine Hine

Christine Hine is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK. She researches the sociology of science and technology, focusing on the use of information and communications technologies in science, and in developing methodological approaches to the understanding of the Internet. She has been particularly prominent in the development of ethnographies of the Internet. Her work on e-science builds on a background in science: she holds a first class honors degree in botany from Oxford University, a master’s in biological computation, and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of York, UK. She is currently president of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology.

Publications

New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production: Understanding E-Science
Christine Hine. © 2006. 286 pages.
New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production: Understanding E-Science offers a distinctive understanding of new infrastructures for knowledge production based in science and...
Computerization Movements and Scientific Disciplines: The Reflexive Potential of New Technologies
Christine Hine. © 2006. 22 pages.
This chapter examines some of the factors which help to create a momentum for developing new infrastructures for scientific research. Specifically it discusses the usefulness of...