DigitalSTS : a field guide for science & technology studies / edited by Janet Vertesi & David Ribes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vertesi, Janet, Author.

Contributor:

Vertesi, Janet, editor.

Ribes, David, editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 553 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: The digitalSTS Community

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

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 digitalSTS

The Ambiguous Boundaries of Computer Source Code and Some of Its Political Consequences

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

Infrastructure

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

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

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-691-19060-7

OCLC:

1089804550