Participating in the Knowledge Society

Note on Contributors Preface Introduction: Looking Beyond the Walls; R.Finnegan PART 1: LOOKING BACK To the Heavens from Rural Lancashire: Jeremiah Horrocks and his Circle, and the Foundation of British Astronomical Research; A.Chapman Collectors Harnessed: Research on the British Flora by Nineteenth-Century Amateur Botanists; D.E.Allen Scientific Inquiry and the Missionary Enterprise; D.N.Livingstone Listening and Learning: Audiences and their Roles in Nineteenth-Century Britain; S.Forgan the State, 1916-1939; K.Vernon PART 2: OUTSIDE AND ACROSS THE WALLS A Brief History of Field Archaeology in the UK: The Academy, the Profession and the Amateur; A.J.Hunt Inside Out or Outside In? The Case of Family and Local History; M.Drake Community Historians and their Work Around the Millenium; J.H.McKay Researching Ourselves? The Mass-Observation Project; D.Sheridan Science with a Team of Thousands: The British Trust for Ornithology; J.J.D.Greenwood Think Tanks and Intellectual Authority Outside the University: Information Technocracy or Republic of Letters?; D.Cummings PART 3: OPENINGS AND CHALLENGES THROUGH THE WEB? Everyday Domestic Research in the Knowledge Society: How Ordinary People Use Information and Communication Technologies to Participate; B.Anderson Building Knowledge Through Debate: Opendemocracy on the Internet; C.Melville Blogging: Personal Participation in Public Knowledge-Building on the Web; M.Brady Using the Internet as a Research Tool: Between Information and Communication; W.Davies PART 4: REFLECTIONS: ARE THERE LESSONS FOR THE PRESENT? Research, Universities and the Knowledge Society; F.Webster Re-Opening Research: New Amateurs or New Professionals?; R.Barnett Index