DigitalSTS : a field guide for science & technology studies /

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Vertesi, Janet (Editor); Ribes, David (Editor)
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, New Jersey :
Publication Dates: [2019]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
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? /