Susan Leigh Star’s research while affiliated with Cambridge College and other places

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A Etnografia da Infraestrutura
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March 2021

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Revista AntHropológicas

Susan Leigh Star

Este artigo mobiliza algumas ferramentas e perspectivas da etnografia para tencionar questões metodológicas no estudo das infraestruturas. Sendo ao mesmo tempo relacionais e ecológicas, as infraestruturas tem significados diferentes para os diferentes grupos. Além disso, elas funcionam equalizando ações, ferramentas e ambiente construído, todos aspectos inseparáveis para sua compreensão. As infraestruturas são também ordinárias ao ponto de serem entediantes, envolvendo objetos como tomadas, normas e formulários burocráticos. Partindo das etnografias tradicionais, algumas das dificuldades de se estudar as infraestruturas envolvem o redimensionamento do campo de pesquisa, a gestão de grandes quantidades de dados, tais como aqueles produzidos pelos registros das transações, e a compreensão da interação entre os comportamentos online e off-line. Ao nos depararmos com esses desafios, alguns truques envolvidos são: o estudo da modelagem da infraestrutura, a compreensão dos paradoxos da infraestrutura enquanto simultaneamente transparente e opaca (incluindo as funcionalidades invisíveis na análise ecológica) e o detalhamento do estatuto epistemológico dos indicadores.The Ethnography of Infrastructure Abstract: This article asks methodological questions about studying infrastructure with some of the tools and perspectives of ethnography. Infrastructure is both relational and ecological—it means different things to different groups and it is part of the balance of action, tools, and the built environment, inseparable from them. It also is frequently mundane to the point of boredom, involving things such as plugs, standards, and bureaucratic forms. Some of the difficulties of studying infrastructure are how to scale up from traditional ethnographic sites, how to manage large quantities of data such as those produced by transaction logs, and how to understand the interplay of online and offline behavior. Some of the tricks of the trade involved in meeting these challenges include studying the design of infrastructure, understanding the paradoxes of infrastructure as both transparent and opaque, including invisible work in the ecological analysis, and pinpointing the epistemological status of indictors.Keywords: Infrastructure, Ethnography, Information Technology, Networks.

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L’ethnographie des infrastructures

December 2018

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Cet article aborde des questions méthodologiques concernant l’étude des infrastructures à l’aide de certains outils et approches de l’ethnographie. La notion d’infrastructure est à la fois relationnelle et écologique. Une infrastructure n’a pas la même signification pour tous les groupes. Elle fait partie de l’équilibre entre actions, outils et environnements construits, tout en étant inséparable d’eux. Souvent, elle semble banale au point de friser l’ennui, avec ses branchements, normes et standards, et formulaires bureaucratiques. Parmi les difficultés liées à l’étude des infrastructures figurent : l’extrapolation, à partir de sites ethnographiques traditionnels, vers d’autres types de sites ; la gestion d’importantes quantités de données, comme celles produites par les relevés de transaction, entre autres activités informationnelles ; et la manière de rendre compte des relations entre les comportements en ligne et hors ligne. Quelques ficelles du métier pour relever ces défis consistent à étudier la conception des infrastructures, à en comprendre la dimension paradoxale, puisque l’infrastructure est à la fois transparente et opaque, à intégrer le travail invisible dans une analyse écologique, et à faire ressortir le caractère épistémologique de certains indicateurs.









Citations (69)


... Visibility can lead to legitimacy, but can also create the reification of work, opportunities for surveillance and an increase in paperwork [44]. Bowker, Star and Spasser [45] argued that "only work that is visible can truly be identified as valuable". At the same time, they show that the visible representations of work in a standardised system might not reflect the processoriented nature of nurses' work, and such representations could imply the reassignment of 'unskilled' parts of nursing, resulting in less need for professional knowledge. ...

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Advancing the status of nursing: Reconstructing professional nursing identity through patient safety work
Classifying Nursing Work
  • Citing Article
  • March 2001

OJIN The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing

... One attractive approach is engaging multidisciplinary student teams on complex collaboration projects situated in global settings [11].While complex collaboration projects can allow students to work together with diverse partners across organizational, disciplinary, cultural, or geographical boundaries, they can also result in misunderstanding, disruption and conflict [12][13] [14]. However, these boundaries, which can be seen as unfamiliar practices or differences in perspectives and communities of practices, may not necessarily result in problematic conflicts, they can also lead to productive conflicts and opportunities for transformational learning to occur [15] [16]. ...

Institutional Ecology, “Translations,” and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907–1939
  • Citing Chapter
  • February 2016

... Classic studies of infrastructure stress their background-ness and invisibility; how socio-technical systems only become a subject of attention and debate in moments of breakdown or crisis (Star and Ruhleder 1996). Blockchain, however, was often discursively in the foreground even before it had a chance to break down or not. ...

Steps toward an Ecology of Infrastructure: Design and Access for Large Information Spaces
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  • January 2001

... Nichtsdestotrotz verwiesen die Autor*innen auf einen Punkt, der für die Situationsanalyse bisher nicht behandelt wurde: die Idee einer (engen) Kopplung von zwei oder mehr Situationen. Im Sinne einer "Intersituativität" (HIRSCHAUER 2014, S.109) können beispielsweise durch digitale Infrastrukturen Situationenselbst dort, wo sie als "contextual whole"(DEWEY 1938, S. 66) verstanden werden -begrenzt oder eine Vernetzung über Raum und Zeit hinweg ermöglicht werden(STAR & RUHLEDER, 2017[1996).Abbildung 2: Intersituations-Map. Bitte klicken Sie hier oder auf die Abbildung für eine Vergrößerung[17] Um die Vermittlungsleistung digitaler Infrastruktur sichtbar zu machen, wurden durch RINK sogenannte Intersituations-Maps erstellt. In Abbildung 2 ist eine solche Map dargestellt. ...

Schritte zu einer Ökologie von Infrastruktur: Design und Zugang für großangelegte Informationsräume (1995/1996)

... Dennoch ist es durch die Aufzeichnungen möglich, trotz der Un terschiedlichkeit der sozialen Welten, Kohärenz darzustellen. Als Grenz objekte sind sie plastisch und dehnbar genug, sodass sich jede*r auf sie beziehen kann (Star/Griesemer 2017). Sie sind Bezugspunkt heterogener Handlungsfelder -was durchaus zu Konflikten führen kann. ...

Institutionelle Ökologie, ›Übersetzungen‹ und Grenzobjekte: Amateure und Professionelle im Museum of Ver tebrate Zoology in Berkeley, 1907–39 (1989)

... As a result, interpretations of task descriptions in a social context must meaningfully be evolved by the systems themselves (possibly by exploiting feedback) when performing actions to the benefit of all participants [18] in a social context, also called social mechanism (cf. [6,24,26]). Since the systems described above act in a social mechanism, and thus on behalf of humans and with impact on (other) humans, the systems addressed are called agents. ...

Die Struktur schlecht strukturierter Lösungen: Grenzobjekte und heterogenes ver teiltes Problemlösen (1988/89)

... Die feministische STS Forscherin Susan Leigh Star hat mit ihrem Konzept der Grenzobjekte (boundary objects) eine prominente Figur einer solchen Verschränkung entwickelt, die es ihr ermöglicht, Formen von nichtkonsensueller Bezogenheit in unterschiedlichen Kontexten zu untersuchen. Entstanden im Zusammenhang einer Museumsstudie, in der gezeigt werden sollte, welche unterschiedlichen Formen des Gebrauchs verschiedene -wie Star sagt -Praxisgemeinschaften von scheinbar ein-und demselben Objekt machen können, hat das Konzept der Grenzobjekte eine Konjunktur erfahren, die nicht zuletzt von Star selbst kritisiert wurde (Star 2017b (Gießmann/Taha 2017, 34) Grenzobjekte können in diesem Sinne sicher als Medien der Kooperation, als Räume des Ereignens von oder als Mittlerinnen zwischen Ver-/Geschie-denem verstanden werden. Und doch wird in dieser Lesart etwas verschluckt: dass es hier nicht (nur) um das Finden einer medialen Form geht, die "praktische Kohärenz und Zusammenarbeit" ermöglicht, sondern darum, dass Kooperation von etwas abhängt, das sich nicht in Kohärenz überführen lässt; dass Grenzobjekte nicht (nur) Möglichkeiten des gemeinsamen, wenn auch nichtkonsensuellen Operierens eröffnen, sondern dass sie gerade eine Nicht/Gemeinschaft, eine Nichtkohärenz in das Gemeinsame einschreiben, eine Nichtübereinstimmung, von der -mit Star formuliert -das Verhältnis von Standardisierung und Mannigfaltigkeit abhängt. ...

Dies ist kein Grenzobjekt: Reflexionen über den Ursprung eines Konzepts (2010)

... We may consider that all these sets of images produced by the port are modules or parts of its very infrastructure (Star, 2020;Vailati, in press). Studies of other archives enabled finding additional material, such as a film made in the 1970s that projected Recife and the port industrial complex as attractive for tourists and foreign investors. ...

A Etnografia da Infraestrutura

Revista AntHropológicas

... In answering this question, we aim to contribute to the growing body of critical sociological literature on nurse professionalization processes and epistemic politics in nursing (Allen, 2014;Betts, 2009;Ernst, 2020a;Ernst and Tatli, 2022;Hallam, 2012;Timmermans et al., 1998;Triantafillou, 2013), as well as the epistemic politics of reorganizing healthcare and improvement work more generally Waring et al., 2016). We do so to deepen the understanding of the epistemological position and legitimacy of nurses (as well as the lack thereof) in fostering professional and organizational change, and how broader epistemic and institutional frameworks for evaluation within healthcare shape local improvement work and learning. ...

The Architecture of Difference: Visibility, Control, and Comparability in Building a Nursing Interventions Classification
  • Citing Chapter
  • December 2020

... The process of adopting international standards in domestic settings is far from straight-forward. For example, the international classification of diseases results from compromises between national preferences and international norms (Bowker & Star, 1997). To appropriate the norm also means to interpret it, resulting in hybrid practices. ...

Problèmes de classification et de codage dans la gestion internationale de l’information
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  • January 1997