Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Contents; Preface: The digitalSTS Community; Introduction; 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 digitalSTSThe 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 / InfrastructureInfrastructural 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 DigitalIntroduction / 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?; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index

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Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in how these fields analyze digital technologies, but many of its key examples do not speak to today's computational realities. This groundbreaking collection brings together a world-class group of contributors to refresh the canon for contemporary digital scholarship. In twenty-five pioneering and incisive essays, this unique digital field guide offers innovative new approaches to digital scholarship, the design of digital tools and objects, and the deployment of critically grounded technologies for analysis and discovery. Contributors cover a broad range of topics, including software development, hackathons, digitized objects, diversity in the tech sector, and distributed scientific collaborations. They discuss methodological considerations of social networks and data analysis, design projects that can translate STS concepts into durable scientific work, and much more. Featuring a concise introduction by Janet Vertesi and David Ribes and accompanied by an interactive microsite, this book provides new perspectives on digital scholarship that will shape the agenda for tomorrow's generation of STS researchers and practitioners.

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