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Title DigitalSTS : a field guide for science & technology studies / edited by Janet Vertesi & David Ribes, co-edited by Carl DiSalvo, Laura Forlano, Steven J. Jackson, Yanni Loukissas, Daniela K. Rosner, Hanna Rose Shell
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 553 pages)
Contents Introduction/Materiality / Laura Forlano -- Unfolding Digital Materiality: How Engineers Struggle to Shape Tangible and Fluid Objects / Alexandre Camus and Dominique Vinck -- The Life and Death of Data / Yanni Loukissas -- Materiality Methodology, and Some Tricks of the Trade in the Study of Data and Specimens / David Ribes -- Digital Visualizations for Thinking with the Environment / Nerea Calvillo -- Introduction/Gender / Daniela K. Rosner -- If "Diversity" Is the Answer, What is the Question? Understanding Diversity Advocacy in Voluntaristic Technology Projects / Christina Dunbar-Hester -- Feminist STS and Ubiquitous Computing: Investigating the Nature of the "Nature" of Ubicomp / Xaroula (Charalampia) Kerasidou -- Affect and Emotion in digitalSTS / Luke Stark -- The Ambiguous Boundaries of Computer Source Code and Some of its Political Consequences / Stéphane Couture -- Introduction / Global Inequalities / Steven J. Jackson -- Venture Ed: Recycling Hype, Fixing Futures, and the Temporal Order of Edtech / Anita Say Chan -- Dangerous Networks: Internet Regulations as Racial Border Control in Italy / Camilla A. Hawthorne -- Social Movements and Digital Technology: A Research Agenda / Carla Ilten and Paul-Brain McInerney -- Living in the Broken City: Infrastructural Inequity, Uncertainty, and the Materiality of the Digital in Brazil / David Nemer and Padma Chirumamilla -- Sound Bites, Sentiments, and Accents: Digitizing Communicative Labor in the Era of Global Outsourcing / Winifred R. Poster -- Introduction/ Infrastructure / Janet Vertesi -- Infrastructural Competence / Steve Sawyer, Ingrid Erickson, and Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi -- Getting "There" from the Ever-Changing "Here": Following Digital Directions / Ranjit Singh, Chris Hesselbein, Jessica Price, and Michael Lynch -- Digitized Coral Reefs / Elena Parmiggiani and Eric Monteiro -- Of "Working Ontologists" and "High-Quality Human Components": The Politics of Semantic Infrastructures / Doris Allhutter -- The Energy Walk: Infrastructuring the Imagination / Brit Ross Winthereik, James Maguire, and Laura Watts -- Introduction/Software / Carl DiSalvo -- From Affordances to Accomplishments: Powerpoint and Excel at NASA / Janet Vertesi -- Misuser Innovations: The Role of "Misuses" and "Misusers" in Digital Communication Technologies / Guillaume Latzko-Toth, Johan Söderberg, Florence Millerand, and Steve Jones -- Knowing Algorithms / Nick Seaver -- Keeping Software Present: Software as a Timely Object for STS Studies of the Digital / Marisa Leavitt Cohn -- Introduction/Visualizing the Social / Yanni Loukissas -- Tracing Design Ecologies: Collecting and Visualizing Ephemeral Data as a Method in Design and Technology Studies / Daniel Cardoso Llach -- Data Sprints: A Collaborative Format in Digital Controversy Mapping / Anders Kristian Munk, Axel Meunier, and Tommaso Venturini -- Smart Artifacts Mediating Social Viscosity / Juan Salamanca -- Actor-Network versus Network Analysis versus Digital Networks: Are We Talking about the Same Networks? / Tommaso Venturini, Anders Kristian Munk, and Mathieu Jacomy
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 10, 2019)
Subject Science -- Study and teaching.
Technology -- Study and teaching.
Information technology.
Electronic data processing.
Information storage and retrieval systems.
Data mining -- Technology
Optical data processing.
Information Systems
information technology.
COMPUTERS -- General.
SCIENCE -- Research & Methodology.
Electronic data processing
Information technology
Science -- Study and teaching
Technology -- Study and teaching
Form Electronic book
Author Vertesi, Janet, editor.
Ribes, David, editor.
DiSalvo, Carl, 1971- editor.
Forlano, Laura, 1973- editor.
Jackson, Steven J., 1958- editor.
Loukissas, Yanni A. (Yanni Alexander), editor.
Rosner, Daniela, editor
Shell, Hanna Rose, editor
ISBN 9780691190600
0691190607