Title Computer simulation, rhetoric, and the scientific imagination : how virtual evidence shapes science in the making and in the news / Aimee Kendall Roundtree.

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 130 pages)
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-125) and index.
Contents	Why computer simulations need rhetorical intervention -- The rhetorical situation of simulations -- Simulations and the scientific imagination -- Rhetorical strategies of simulated evidence -- Social dimensions of simulated meaning -- The rhetoric of simulations in the news.
Summary	The book investigates the rhetorical nature of scientific computer simulations, and it discusses the implications of those rhetorical strategies for how we understand, use and evaluate simulated evidence in the real world.
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Subject	Computer simulation -- Philosophy.
	Computer simulation.
	Philosophy.
	Science -- Public opinion.
	Science -- Public opinion.
	Science.
	Rhetoric.
	Rhetoric.
	Information technology -- Public opinion.
	Information technology -- Public opinion.
	Information technology.
	Virtual reality -- Social aspects.
	Virtual reality -- Social aspects.
	COMPUTERS -- General.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Computer simulation, rhetoric, and the scientific imagination Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014] 9780739175569 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2013037816
ISBN	9780739175576 ebook
	0739175572
	9780739175569 cloth : alkaline paper
	9780739175576 electronic
	0739175564