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Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star
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M.I.T. Press,Bowker, Geoffrey C.,Timmermans, Stefan,Clarke, Adele E.,Balka, Ellen,

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 revealed the social and ethical his…

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1 online resource (1 PDF (ix, 548 pages)).
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The constitution of algorithms :ground-truthing, programming, formulating
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Bowker, Geoffrey C.,Jaton, Florian,

"Ethnographic study of the constitution of algorithms"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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Sorting things out :classification and its consequences
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BOWKER, Geoffrey C.Star, Susan Leigh,

"In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. They investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis.…

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9780262269070
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1 online resource (xii, 377 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
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BOWKER, Geoffrey C.STAR, Susan Leigh

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, Geo…

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