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Thinking Infrastructures (Hardcover): Martin Kornberger, Geoffrey C Bowker, Julia Elyachar, Andrea Mennicken, Peter Miller,... Thinking Infrastructures (Hardcover)
Martin Kornberger, Geoffrey C Bowker, Julia Elyachar, Andrea Mennicken, Peter Miller, …
R3,915 R3,705 Discovery Miles 37 050 Save R210 (5%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume introduces the notion of Thinking Infrastructures to explore a broad range of phenomena that structure attention, shape decision-making, and guide cognition: Thinking Infrastructures configure entities (via tracing, tagging), organise knowledge (via search engines), sort things out (via rankings and ratings), govern markets (via calculative practices, including algorithms), and configure preferences (via valuations such as recommender systems). Thus, Thinking Infrastructures, we collectively claim in this volume, inform and shape distributed and embodied cognition, including collective reasoning, structuring of attention and orchestration of decision-making.

Sensing In/Security - Sensors as Transnational Security Infrastructures (Paperback): Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Nikolaus... Sensing In/Security - Sensors as Transnational Security Infrastructures (Paperback)
Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Nikolaus Poechhacker, Geoffrey C Bowker
R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Constitution of Algorithms - Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating (Paperback): Florian Jaton, Geoffrey C Bowker The Constitution of Algorithms - Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating (Paperback)
Florian Jaton, Geoffrey C Bowker
R1,682 R1,549 Discovery Miles 15 490 Save R133 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Memory Practices in the Sciences (Paperback): Geoffrey C Bowker Memory Practices in the Sciences (Paperback)
Geoffrey C Bowker
R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner, 2007 Ludwig Fleck Prize given by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). and Awarded "Best Information Book 2006" by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). The way we record knowledge, and the web of technical, formal, and social practices that surrounds it, inevitably affects the knowledge that we record. The ways we hold knowledge about the past--in handwritten manuscripts, in printed books, in file folders, in databases--shape the kind of stories we tell about that past. In this lively and erudite look at the relation of our information infrastructures to our information, Geoffrey Bowker examines how, over the past two hundred years, information technology has converged with the nature and production of scientific knowledge. His story weaves a path between the social and political work of creating an explicit, indexical memory for science--the making of infrastructures--and the variety of ways we continually reconfigure, lose, and regain the past. At a time when memory is so cheap and its recording is so protean, Bowker reminds us of the centrality of what and how we choose to forget. In "Memory Practices in the Sciences" he looks at three "memory epochs" of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries and their particular reconstructions and reconfigurations of scientific knowledge. The nineteenth century's central science, geology, mapped both the social and the natural world into a single time package (despite apparent discontinuities), as, in a different way, did mid-twentieth-century cybernetics. Both, Bowker argues, packaged time in ways indexed by their information technologies to permit traffic between the social andnatural worlds. Today's sciences of biodiversity, meanwhile, "database the world" in a way that excludes certain spaces, entities, and times. We use the tools of the present to look at the past, says Bowker; we project onto nature our modes of organizing our own affairs.

Sorting Things Out - Classification and Its Consequences (Paperback, Revised): Geoffrey C Bowker, Susan Leigh Star Sorting Things Out - Classification and Its Consequences (Paperback, Revised)
Geoffrey C Bowker, Susan Leigh Star
R1,076 R1,022 Discovery Miles 10 220 Save R54 (5%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions. 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, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, 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. The authors emphasize the role of invisibility in the process by which classification orders human interaction. They examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary. They also explore systems of classification as part of the built information environment. Much as an urban historian would review highway permits and zoning decisions to tell a city's story, the authors review archives of classification design to understand how decisions have been made. Sorting Things Out has a moral agenda, for each standard and category valorizes some point of view and silences another. Standards and classifications produce advantage or suffering. Jobs are made and lost; some regions benefit at the expense of others. How these choices are made and how we think about that process are at the moral and political core of this work. The book is an important empirical source for understanding the building of information infrastructures.

Boundary Objects and Beyond - Working with Leigh Star (Paperback): Geoffrey C Bowker, Stefan Timmermans, Adele E. Clarke, Ellen... Boundary Objects and Beyond - Working with Leigh Star (Paperback)
Geoffrey C Bowker, Stefan Timmermans, Adele E. Clarke, Ellen Balka
R1,162 R1,100 Discovery Miles 11 000 Save R62 (5%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The multifaceted work of the late Susan Leigh Star is explored through a selection of her writings and essays by friends and colleagues. 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. Contributors Ellen Balka, Eevi E. Beck, Dick Boland, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Janet Ceja Alcala, 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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