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  | | 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 ..." |
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