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Boundary objects and beyond : working with Leigh Star / edited by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Stefan Timmermans, Adele E. Clarke, and Ellen Balka.

Contributor(s): Bowker, Geoffrey C [editor.] | Timmermans, Stefan, 1968- [editor.] | Clarke, Adele E [editor.] | Balka, Ellen [editor.] | IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].

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BookSeries: Infrastructures series: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2016]Description: 1 PDF (ix, 548 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262331012.Subject(s): Knowledge, Sociology of

| Social ecology

| Communication -- Social aspects

| Information technology -- Social aspects

| Cognition

| Interdisciplinary research

| Cognition

| Communication -- Social aspects

| Information technology -- Social aspects

| Interdisciplinary research

| Knowledge, Sociology of

| Social ecology

Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.4/2 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.

Contents:

Revisiting Ecologies of knowledge : work and politics in science and technology / Susan Leigh Star -- Ecological thinking, material spirituality, and the poetics of infrastructure / Maria Puig de la Bellacasa -- Don't go all the way : "misplaced concretism" / Nina Wakeford -- Anticipation work : abduction, simplification, hope / Adele E. Clarke -- Living grounded theory : cognitive and emotional forms of Pragmatism / Susan Leigh Star -- Misplaced concretism and concrete situations : feminism, method, and information technology / Susan Leigh Star -- Institutional ecology, "translations", and boundary objects : amateurs and professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-1939 / Susan Leigh Star and James R. Griesemer -- Sharing spaces, crossing boundaries / James R. Griesemer -- So boundary as not to be an object at all / Brian Cantwell Smith -- The concept of boundary objects and the reshaping of research in management and organization studies / Dick Boland -- Leigh Star and the appearance of "The structure of ill-structured solutions" / Les Gasser -- The structure of ill-structured solutions : boundary objects and heterogeneous distributed problem solving / Susan Leigh Star -- Power, technology, and the phenomenology of conventions : on being allergic to onions / Susan Leigh Star -- Anatomy is frozen physiology, or How I learned to see the process that is everywhere / Gail A. Hornstein -- Categorizing life and death : the denial of civilians in U.S. robot wars / Jutta Weber and Cheris Kramarae -- Infrastructures for remembering / Janet Cej�a Alcala, Susan Leigh Star, and Geoffrey C. Bowker -- Triangulation from the margins / John Leslie King -- Reflections on the visibility and invisibility of work / Kjeld Schmidt -- Layers of silence, arenas of voice : the ecology of visible and invisible work / Susan Leigh Star and Anselm Strauss -- Steps toward an ecology of infrastructure : design and access for large information spaces / Susan Leigh Star and Karen Ruhleder -- Mapping the body across diverse informatin systems : shadow bodies and how they make us human / Ellen Balka and Susan Leigh Star -- Thundering silence / Eevi E. Beck -- Those who are not served? : exploring exclusions and silences in transport infrastructures / Jane Summerton -- The ethnography of infrastructure / Susan Leigh Star -- Envoi : When shadows become complex : weaving the nganmarra / Susan Leigh Star.

Summary: 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 histories that are deeply embedded in classification systems. Star's most celebrated concept was the notion of boundary objects: representational forms -- things or theories -- that can be shared between different communities, with each holding its own understanding of the representation. Unfortunately, Leigh was unable to complete a work on the poetics of infrastructure that further developed the full range of her work. This volume collects articles by Star that set out some of her thinking on boundary objects, marginality, and infrastructure, together with essays by friends and colleagues from a range of disciplines -- from philosophy of science to organization science -- that testify to the wide-ranging influence of Star's work.ContributorsEllen Balka, Eevi E. Beck, Dick Boland, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Janet Ceja Alcal�, Adele E. Clarke, Les Gasser, James R. Griesemer, Gail Hornstein, John Leslie King, Cheris Kramarae, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Karen Ruhleder, Kjeld Schmidt, Brian Cantwell Smith, Susan Leigh Star, Anselm L. Strauss, Jane Summerton, Stefan Timmermans, Helen Verran, Nina Wakeford, Jutta Weber.

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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 histories that are deeply embedded in classification systems. Star's most celebrated concept was the notion of boundary objects: representational forms -- things or theories -- that can be shared between different communities, with each holding its own understanding of the representation. Unfortunately, Leigh was unable to complete a work on the poetics of infrastructure that further developed the full range of her work. This volume collects articles by Star that set out some of her thinking on boundary objects, marginality, and infrastructure, together with essays by friends and colleagues from a range of disciplines -- from philosophy of science to organization science -- that testify to the wide-ranging influence of Star's work.ContributorsEllen Balka, Eevi E. Beck, Dick Boland, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Janet Ceja Alcal�, Adele E. Clarke, Les Gasser, James R. Griesemer, Gail Hornstein, John Leslie King, Cheris Kramarae, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Karen Ruhleder, Kjeld Schmidt, Brian Cantwell Smith, Susan Leigh Star, Anselm L. Strauss, Jane Summerton, Stefan Timmermans, Helen Verran, Nina Wakeford, Jutta Weber.

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Boundary objects and beyond : working with Leigh Star / edited by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Stefan Timmermans, Adele E. Clarke, and Ellen Balka.

Contributor(s): Bowker, Geoffrey C [editor.] | Timmermans, Stefan, 1968- [editor.] | Clarke, Adele E [editor.] | Balka, Ellen [editor.] | IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].