digitalSTS : : A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies / / Janet Vertesi, David Ribes.

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• VerfasserIn: Vertesi, Janet,; Ribes, David,
• MitwirkendeR: Allhutter, Doris,; Calvillo, Nerea,; Camus, Alexandre,; Cardoso Llach, Daniel,; Chirumamilla, Padma,; Couture, Stéphane,; DiSalvo, Carl,; Dunbar-Hester, Christina,; Erickson, Ingrid,; Forlano, Laura,; Hawthorne, Camilla A.,; Hesselbein, Chris,; Ilten, Carla,; Jackson, Steven J.,; Jacomy, Mathieu,; Jarrahi, Mohammad Hossein,; Jones, Steve,; Kerasidou, Xaroula (Charalampia),; Latzko-Toth, Guillaume,; Leavitt Cohn, Marisa,; Loukissas, Yanni,; Lynch, Michael,; Maguire, James,; McInerney, Paul-Brian,; Meunier, Axel,; Millerand, Florence,; Monteiro, Eric,; Munk, Anders Kristian,; Nemer, David,; Parmiggiani, Elena,; Poster, Winifred R.,; Price, Jessica,; Ribes, David,; Rosner, Daniela K.,; Ross Winthereik, Brit,; Salamanca, Juan,; Sawyer, Steve,; Say Chan, Anita,; Seaver, Nick,; Singh, Ranjit,; Stark, Luke,; Söderberg, Johan,; Venturini, Tommaso,; Vertesi, Janet,; Vinck, Dominique,; Watts, Laura,
• TeilnehmendeR: Allhutter, Doris.; Calvillo, Nerea.; Camus, Alexandre.; Chan, Anita Say.; Chirumamilla, Padma.; Cohn, Marisa Leavitt.; Couture, Stéphane.; DiSalvo, Carl.; Dunbar-Hester, Christina.; Erickson, Ingrid.; Forlano, Laura.; Hawthorne, Camilla A.; Hesselbein, Chris.; Ilten, Carla.; Jackson, Steven J.; Jacomy, Mathieu.; Jarrahi, Mohammad Hossein.; Jones, Steve.; Kerasidou, Xaroula (Charalampia).; Latzko-Toth, Guillaume.; Llach, Daniel Cardoso.; Loukissas, Yanni.; Lynch, Michael.; Maguire, James.; McInerney, Paul-Brian.; Meunier, Axel.; Millerand, Florence.; Monteiro, Eric.; Munk, Anders Kristian.; Nemer, David.; Parmiggiani, Elena.; Poster, Winifred R.; Price, Jessica.; Ribes, David.; Rosner, Daniela K.; Salamanca, Juan.; Sawyer, Steve.; Seaver, Nick.; Singh, Ranjit.; Stark, Luke.; Söderberg, Johan.; Venturini, Tommaso.; Vertesi, Janet.; Vinck, Dominique.; Watts, Laura.; Winthereik, Brit Ross.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (568 p.) :; 75 b/w illus. 1 table. 4 maps.

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 h...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface: The digitalSTS Community
• Introduction
• Materiality
• Introduction
• 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
• Gender
• Introduction
• 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
• Global Inequalities
• Introduction
• 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
• Infrastructure
• Introduction
• 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
• Software
• Introduction
• 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
• Visualizing the Social
• Introduction
• 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