DigitalSTS : a field guide for science & technology studies /
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Princeton University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Princeton, New Jersey : |
Publication Dates: | [2019] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xi, 553 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9780691187075 (hardback) : 069118707X (hardback) 9780691187082 (paperback) 0691187088 (paperback) |
Index Number: | Q181 |
CLC: | N4 |
Call Number: | N4/D574 |
Contents: |
Introduction/Materiality / Unfolding Digital Materiality: How Engineers Struggle to Shape Tangible and Fluid Objects / The Life and Death of Data / Materiality Methodology, and Some Tricks of the Trade in the Study of Data and Specimens / Digital Visualizations for Thinking with the Environment / Introduction/Gender / If "Diversity" Is the Answer, What is the Question? Understanding Diversity Advocacy in Voluntaristic Technology Projects / Feminist STS and Ubiquitous Computing: Investigating the Nature of the "Nature" of Ubicomp / Affect and Emotion in digitalSTS / The Ambiguous Boundaries of Computer Source Code and Some of its Political Consequences / Introduction / Global Inequalities / Venture Ed: Recycling Hype, Fixing Futures, and the Temporal Order of Edtech / Dangerous Networks: Internet Regulations as Racial Border Control in Italy / Social Movements and Digital Technology: A Research Agenda / Living in the Broken City: Infrastructural Inequity, Uncertainty, and the Materiality of the Digital in Brazil / Sound Bites, Sentiments, and Accents: Digitizing Communicative Labor in the Era of Global Outsourcing / Introduction/ Infrastructure / Infrastructural Competence / Getting "There" from the Ever-Changing "Here": Following Digital Directions / Digitized Coral Reefs / Of "Working Ontologists" and "High-Quality Human Components": The Politics of Semantic Infrastructures / The Energy Walk: Infrastructuring the Imagination / Introduction/Software / From Affordances to Accomplishments: Powerpoint and Excel at NASA / Misuser Innovations: The Role of "Misuses" and "Misusers" in Digital Communication Technologies / Knowing Algorithms / Keeping Software Present: Software as a Timely Object for STS Studies of the Digital / Introduction/Visualizing the Social / Tracing Design Ecologies: Collecting and Visualizing Ephemeral Data as a Method in Design and Technology Studies / Data Sprints: A Collaborative Format in Digital Controversy Mapping / Smart Artifacts Mediating Social Viscosity / Actor-Network versus Network Analysis versus Digital Networks: Are We Talking about the Same Networks? / |