digitalSTS : a field guide for science & technology studies /
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- 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