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  | | Memory Practices in the Sciences (Inside Technology) by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Wiebe E. Bijker, W. Bernard Carlson, Trevor Pinch, Judith Gueyfier, Geoffrey C., Vid Laboratory, University Of California Paperback, 274 Pages, Published 2008 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52489-6, ISBN: 0-262-52489-9 "The way we record knowledge, and the web of technical, formal, and social practices that surrounds it, inevitably affects the knowledge that we record. The ways we hold knowledge about the past -- in handwritten manuscripts, in printed books, in file folders, in databases -- shape the kind of stories we tell about that past. In this lively and erudite look at the relation o ..." |
 | | Thinking Infrastructures (Research in the Sociology of Organizations) by Martin Kornberger, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Julia Elyachar, Andrea Mennicken, Peter Miller, Joanne Randa Nucho, Neil Pollock Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Emerald Publishing Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-78769-558-0, ISBN: 1-78769-558-1 "This volume introduces the notion of Thinking Infrastructures to explore a broad range of phenomena that structure attention, shape decision-making, and guide cognition: Thinking Infrastructures configure entities (via tracing, tagging), organise knowledge (via search engines), sort things out (via rankings and ratings), govern markets (via calculative practices, including algorithms), and configure preferences (via valuations such as r ..." |
 | | Sorting Things Out Classification and Its Consequences (Inside Technology) by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star, Trevor Pinch, Wiebe E. Bijker, W. Bernard Carlson Paperback, 389 Pages, Published 2000 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52295-3, ISBN: 0-262-52295-0 "What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification -- the scaffolding of information infrastructures.In ..." |
 | | Boundary Objects and Beyond Working with Leigh Star (Infrastructures) by Stefan Timmermans, Ellen Balka, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Adele E. Clarke, Nina Wakeford, Richard Boland, Les Gasser, Gail Hornstein, Cheris Kramarae, Karen Ruhleder, Jutta Weber, Kjeld Schmidt, Helen Verran, Jane Summerton, Susan Leigh Star, James R. Griesemer, Brian Cantwell Smith, Janet Ceja Alcalá, John L. King, Anselm L. Strauss, Eevi E. Beck, Paul N. Edwards, Sanjay K. Chugh, Professor Ellen Balka Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2016 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52808-5, ISBN: 0-262-52808-8 "Susan Leigh Star (1954--2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy practices of discovering science, asking hard questions about the marginalizing as well as the liberating powers of science and technology. In the landmark work Sorting Things Out, Star and Geoffrey Bowker ..." |
 | | Sensing In/Security Sensors as Transnational Security Infrastructures (Paperback or Softback) by Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Nikolaus Poechhacker, Geoffrey C. Bowker Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2021 by Lightning Source Inc Jul 2021 ISBN-13: 978-1-912729-10-4, ISBN: 1-912729-10-5 "Contributions in this volume examine how sensing devices gain political and epistemic relevance in various forms of in/security, from border control, regulation, and epidemiological tracking, to aerial surveillance and hacking." |
 | | Memory Practices in the Sciences(1st Edition) (Inside Technology) by Geoffrey C. Bowker Hardcover, 273 Pages, Published 2006 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-02589-8, ISBN: 0-262-02589-2 "Winner, 2007 Ludwig Fleck Prize given by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). and Awarded "Best Information Science Book 2006" by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). The way we record knowledge, and the web of technical, formal, and social practices that surrounds it, inevitably affects the knowledge that we record. The ways we hold knowledge about the past—in handwritten manuscripts, in pri ..." |
 | | Sorting Things Out(1st Edition) Classification and Its Consequences (Inside Technology) by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star Hardcover, 389 Pages, Published 1999 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-02461-7, ISBN: 0-262-02461-6 "What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification -- the scaffolding of information infrastructures.In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore ..." |
 | | Science on the Run Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920-1940 (Inside Technology) by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Wiebe E. Bijker, W. Bernard Carlson, Trevor Pinch Hardcover, 199 Pages, Published 1994 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-02367-2, ISBN: 0-262-02367-9 "In this engaging account, Geoffrey Bowker reveals how Schlumberger devised a method of testing potential oil fields, produced a rhetoric, and secured a position that allowed it to manipulate the definition of what a technology is.This is the story of how one company created and codified a new science "on the run," away from the confines of the laboratory. By construing its service as scientific, Schlumberger was able to get the edge on ..." |
 | | The Constitution of Algorithms Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating (Inside Technology) by Jaton, Florian, Bowker, Geoffrey C. Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2021 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-54214-2, ISBN: 0-262-54214-5 |
 | | Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge (Paperback) by Hannah Star Rogers, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Barry Barnes Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2022 by Mit Press Ltd Mai 2022 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-54368-2, ISBN: 0-262-54368-0 "... Honghong Tinn , Darla Thompson , Marjorie Levinson , and my cohort at the School of Criticism and Theory , as well as Charles Cording , Russell Williams , Ming - cha Liu , Jean Basinger , Shalonda Green , Mary Stevens , and Alice Major ..." |
 | | Energy at the End of the World An Orkney Islands Saga (Infrastructures) by Laura Watts, Paul N. Edwards, Geoffrey C. Bowker Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 2019 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-03889-8, ISBN: 0-262-03889-7 "Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world. The islands of Orkney, off the northern coast of Scotland, are closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Surrounded by fierce seas and shrouded by clouds and mist, the islands seem to mark the edge of the known world. And yet they are a center for energy technology innovation, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel networks, attracting the interes ..." |
 | | Design Unbound Designing for Emergence in a White Water World: Designing for Emergence (Volume 1) (Infrastructures) by John Seely Brown, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Paul N. Edwards, Ann M. PendletonJulli Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2018 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53579-3, ISBN: 0-262-53579-3 "Tools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world. Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having agency in the twenty-first century, in what the authors characterize as a white water world―rapidly changing, hyperconnected, and radically contingent. These are the tools of a new kind of practice that is the offspring of complexity science, which gives us a new lens through which ..." |
 | | Boundary Objects and Beyond(1st Edition) Working with Leigh Star (Infrastructures) by Stefan Timmermans, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Ellen Balka, Adele E. Clarke, Nina Wakeford, Susan Leigh Star, Richard Boland, Les Gasser, Gail Hornstein, Jutta Weber, Cheris Kramarae, Kjeld Schmidt, Karen Ruhleder, Jane Summerton, Helen Verran, James R. Griesemer, Brian Cantwell Smith, Janet Ceja Alcalá, John L. King, Anselm L. Strauss, Eevi E. Beck, Paul N. Edwards, Professor Ellen Balka Hardcover, 560 Pages, Published 2016 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-02974-2, ISBN: 0-262-02974-X "Susan Leigh Star (1954--2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy practices of discovering science, asking hard questions about the marginalizing as well as the liberating powers of science and technology. In the landmark work Sorting Things Out, Star and Geoffrey Bowker ..." |
 | | A Vast Machine Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures) by Paul N. Edwards, Geoffrey C. Bowker Paperback, 552 Pages, Published 2013 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51863-5, ISBN: 0-262-51863-5 "The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, “sound science.” In A Vast Machine Paul Edwards has news for these skeptics: w ..." |
 | | Thinking Infrastructures by Martin Kornberger, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Julia Elyachar, Andrea Mennicken, Peter Miller, Joanne Randa Nucho, Neil Pollock 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Emerald Group Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78769-557-3, ISBN: 1-78769-557-3 "These include: Paolo Quattrone, David cooper, iris Bosa, silvia Jordan, stephen Walker, shaul hayoun, Jakov Jandrić and Daniela Toledo Machado. We are also grateful to the participants of various departmental seminars where this study has ..." |
 | | Boundary Objects and Beyond Working with Leigh Star by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Stefan Timmermans, Adele E. Clarke, Ellen Balka 560 Pages, Published 2016 by Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-33102-9, ISBN: 0-262-33102-0 "Working with Leigh Star Geoffrey C. Bowker, Stefan Timmermans, Adele E. Clarke, Ellen Balka. me in the way it taught me to link my career experiences of the viscosity and density changes that came with my own boundary crossings to the scientific practices I was studying. My job having become tenure-track, gaining tenure would have to mean acceptance as a philosopher in at least the sense that I would become “card carrying.” Prudenc ..." |
 | | The Container Principle(1st Edition) How a Box Changes the Way We Think (Infrastructures) by Alexander Klose, Charles Marcrum Ii, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Paul N. Edwards Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2015 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-02857-8, ISBN: 0-262-02857-3 "We live in a world organized around the container. Standardized twenty- and forty-foot shipping containers carry material goods across oceans and over land; provide shelter, office space, and storage capacity; inspire films, novels, metaphors, and paradigms. Today, TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit, the official measurement for shipping containers) has become something like ..." |
 | | Spam A Shadow History of the Internet (Infrastructures) by Finn Brunton Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2013 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01887-6, ISBN: 0-262-01887-X |
 | | Design Unbound Designing for Emergence in a White Water World: Ecologies of Change for a White Water World (Infrastructures) by John Seely Brown, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Paul N. Edwards, Ann M. PendletonJulli Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2018 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53582-3, ISBN: 0-262-53582-3 |
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