Susan Leigh Star's research while affiliated with Cambridge College and other places
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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 asp...
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 env...
Susan Leigh Stars (1954-2010) Werk bewegt sich zwischen Infrastrukturforschung, Sozialtheorie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Ökologie und Feminismus. Die wegweisenden historischen und ethnografischen Texte der US-amerikanischen Technik- und Wissenschaftssoziologin liegen mit diesem Band erstmals gesammelt auf Deutsch vor. Ihre Arbeiten zu Grenzobjekten,...
Susan Leigh Stars (1954-2010) Werk bewegt sich zwischen Infrastrukturforschung, Sozialtheorie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Ökologie und Feminismus. Die wegweisenden historischen und ethnografischen Texte der US-amerikanischen Technik- und Wissenschaftssoziologin liegen mit diesem Band erstmals gesammelt auf Deutsch vor. Ihre Arbeiten zu Grenzobjekten,...
Susan Leigh Stars (1954-2010) Werk bewegt sich zwischen Infrastrukturforschung, Sozialtheorie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Ökologie und Feminismus. Die wegweisenden historischen und ethnografischen Texte der US-amerikanischen Technik- und Wissenschaftssoziologin liegen mit diesem Band erstmals gesammelt auf Deutsch vor. Ihre Arbeiten zu Grenzobjekten,...
Susan Leigh Stars (1954-2010) Werk bewegt sich zwischen Infrastrukturforschung, Sozialtheorie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Ökologie und Feminismus. Die wegweisenden historischen und ethnografischen Texte der US-amerikanischen Technik- und Wissenschaftssoziologin liegen mit diesem Band erstmals gesammelt auf Deutsch vor. Ihre Arbeiten zu Grenzobjekten,...
Susan Leigh Stars (1954-2010) Werk bewegt sich zwischen Infrastrukturforschung, Sozialtheorie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Ökologie und Feminismus. Die wegweisenden historischen und ethnografischen Texte der US-amerikanischen Technik- und Wissenschaftssoziologin liegen mit diesem Band erstmals gesammelt auf Deutsch vor. Ihre Arbeiten zu Grenzobjekten,...
Susan Leigh Stars (1954-2010) Werk bewegt sich zwischen Infrastrukturforschung, Sozialtheorie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Ökologie und Feminismus. Die wegweisenden historischen und ethnografischen Texte der US-amerikanischen Technik- und Wissenschaftssoziologin liegen mit diesem Band erstmals gesammelt auf Deutsch vor. Ihre Arbeiten zu Grenzobjekten,...
Susan Leigh Stars (1954-2010) Werk bewegt sich zwischen Infrastrukturforschung, Sozialtheorie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Ökologie und Feminismus. Die wegweisenden historischen und ethnografischen Texte der US-amerikanischen Technik- und Wissenschaftssoziologin liegen mit diesem Band erstmals gesammelt auf Deutsch vor. Ihre Arbeiten zu Grenzobjekten,...
Susan Leigh Stars (1954-2010) Werk bewegt sich zwischen Infrastrukturforschung, Sozialtheorie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Ökologie und Feminismus. Die wegweisenden historischen und ethnografischen Texte der US-amerikanischen Technik- und Wissenschaftssoziologin liegen mit diesem Band erstmals gesammelt auf Deutsch vor. Ihre Arbeiten zu Grenzobjekten,...
Susan Leigh Stars (1954-2010) Werk bewegt sich zwischen Infrastrukturforschung, Sozialtheorie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Ökologie und Feminismus. Die wegweisenden historischen und ethnografischen Texte der US-amerikanischen Technik- und Wissenschaftssoziologin liegen mit diesem Band erstmals gesammelt auf Deutsch vor. Ihre Arbeiten zu Grenzobjekten,...
Susan Leigh Stars (1954-2010) Werk bewegt sich zwischen Infrastrukturforschung, Sozialtheorie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Ökologie und Feminismus. Die wegweisenden historischen und ethnografischen Texte der US-amerikanischen Technik- und Wissenschaftssoziologin liegen mit diesem Band erstmals gesammelt auf Deutsch vor. Ihre Arbeiten zu Grenzobjekten,...
Susan Leigh Stars (1954-2010) Werk bewegt sich zwischen Infrastrukturforschung, Sozialtheorie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Ökologie und Feminismus. Die wegweisenden historischen und ethnografischen Texte der US-amerikanischen Technik- und Wissenschaftssoziologin liegen mit diesem Band erstmals gesammelt auf Deutsch vor. Ihre Arbeiten zu Grenzobjekten,...
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 ab...
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 ab...
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 ab...
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 ab...
Computers and information technology have over the past 50 years moved from being a social and engineering form which ‘impacted’ society to being core to our social fabric – much as we cannot study an ecosystem without considering water supply, so we cannot study any part of society without considering the flow of bits and bytes. The richly texture...
There are three components to boundary objects as outlined in the original 1989 article. Interpretive flexibility, the structure of informatic and work process needs and arrangements, and, finally, the dynamic between ill-structured and more tailored uses of the objects. Much of the use of the concept has concentrated on the aspect of interpretive...
STEPS TOWARD AN ECOLOGY OF INFRASTRUCTURE : DESIGN AND ACCESS FOR LARGE INFORMATION SPACES
We analyze a large-scale custom software effort, the Worm Community System (WCS), a collaborative system designed for a geographically dispersed community of geneticists. There were complex challenges in creating this infrastructural tool, ranging from simple...
THIS IS NOT A BOUNDARY-OBJECT. REFLECTIONS ON THE ORIGIN OF THE CONCEPT.
There are three components to boundary objects as outlined in the original 1989 article (Star and Griesemer). Interpretive flexibility, the structure of informatic and work process needs and arrangements, and, finally, the dynamic between ill-structured and more tailored uses...
World Bank, Knowledge for Development Program Peer Reviewed http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/61201/1/Jackson et al, Extending African Knowledge Infrastructures (March 2008).pdf
Extensive review of the origin and history of social worlds theory, including the perspective that theory and methods operate as a package (not methods in service to theory). A comprehensive list of the vocabulary of social worlds and references to each study that introduced each term. Also a brief introduction to Clarke's situational analysis, whi...
Residual categories are those which cannot be formally represented within a given classification system. We examine the forms
that residuality takes within our information systems today, and explore some silences which form around those inhabiting
particular residual categories. We argue that there is significant ethical and political work to be do...
This article examines the dynamics of anomalies as part of scientific work. Several types of anomaly are identified: mistakes, artifacts, fraud, and discovery; and typical trajectories for artifacts are described: the establishment of suspected artifacts, changes from unacceptable to acceptable, changes in significance, visibility, and means of con...
Wissenschaftliches Problemlösen ist ein gutes Beispiel für routinemäßig erfolgreiche kooperative Arbeit und eine gute Testumgebung für eine Reihe verteilter Systeme computergestützter kooperativer Arbeit (computer-supported cooperative work, CSCW), die zur Unterstützung derartiger Kooperationen entworfen werden. Dieser Aufsatz beginnt mit einer the...
Viewing digital libraries as sociotechnical systems, networks of people and technology interacting with society.
The contributors to this volume view digital libraries (DLs) from a social as well as technological perspective. They see DLs as sociotechnical systems, networks of technology, information artifacts, and people and practices interacting...
Participation in classroom settings decreases with class size and di-versity, thus creating passive modes of learning, due to feelings of shyness, peer pressure, and the like. Computing technology can help by creating a "safe haven" for student participation, but the successful introduction of tools into the class-room, already a dynamic and tool-r...
Participation in classroom settings decreases with class size and diversity, thus creating passive modes of learning, due to feelings of shyness, peer pressure, and the like. Computing technology can help by creating a "safe haven" for student participation, but the successful introduction of tools into the classroom, already a dynamic and tool-ric...
By bringing together science studies, information science and ethnographic fieldwork in interdisciplinary research the author argues for the relevance of ethnographic practices when studying information systems as infrastructures of communication. Ethnographic fieldwork focuses attention on fringes and materialities of infrastructures and renders t...
In order to ensure the reliability of our coding, the research design called for an 'inter-rater reliability check' once every two months. We learned to loathe these checks; we knew that the coding system was inadequate in terms of reliability and that our choice of categories was optional, subjective and largely according to our sense of what an i...
Introduction: The Problem of Electronic Community q I live on the net. q The Internet is a new nation. q The laboratory of the 21 st century has no walls and no boundaries, but is a virtual community. q We are all Netizens now. q Electronic communication has revolutionized the way science is done. Those of us studying the use of electronic media ar...
Digital Libraries (DLs) are social as well as technological entities. Their purpose is to help people do knowledge work, to carry knowledge processes across space and time. DLs are designed, used, and evaluated in a context of work and community. And DLs interact with this context, changing and being changed by it. Effective DLs must be designed an...
This article is a methodological think piece about the ways in which classifications (and standards) impinge in myriad ways on our daily lives. We argue that although they are frequently invisible to us, they are highly political and ethically charged. We suggest 4 principles garnered from our own research and that of others that can together be us...
How users meet infrastructure is a key practical, methodological challenge for digital library design. This article presents research conducted by the Social Science Team of the federally funded Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) project at the University of Illinois. Data were collected from potential and actual users of the DLI testbed—containing...
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...
This article asks methodological questions about studying infrastructure with some of the tools and perspectives of ethnography. Infrastructure is both relational and ecologicaltextemdashit 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 frequent...
No work is inherently either visible or invisible. We always “see” work through a selection of indicators: straining muscles, finished artifacts, a changed state of affairs. The indicators change with context, and that context becomes a negotiation about the relationship between visible and invisible work. With shifts in industrial practice these n...
No work is inherently either visible or invisible. We always “see” work through a selection of indicators: straining muscles, finished artifacts, a changed state of affairs. The indicators change with context, and that context becomes a negotiation about the relationship between visible and invisible work. With shifts in industrial practice these n...
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Through an analysis of information systems in medical communities - notably the development of the International Classification of Diseases and the design of a Nursing Interventions Classification scheme - we argue that community systems designers necessarily build for multiple social worlds simultaneously. So doing, we argue, they make a series of...
The experience of a long-term chronic illness weaves together problems in biography, the body, and the cultural and organizational meanings of the disease. Time meets infrastructure; experience meets classification. We present here a close reading of two studies of tuberculosis: Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain and Julius Roth's empirical wor...
We analyze a large-scale custom software effort, the Worm Community System (WCS), a collaborative system designed for a geographically dispersed community of geneticists. There were complex challenges in creating this infrastructural tool, ranging from simple lack of resources to complex organizational and intellectual communication failures and tr...
Reviews literature on digital libraries (DLs) by examining its conceptions; concepts related to social informatics; researchers exploring DL social informatics; methods of DL design; social aspects of DL infrastructure and use; and research approaches to DL social informatics. Presents questions for further research and discusses social and technol...
This paper describes an evolving classification system for understanding the nature of nursing work, the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) developed at the University of Iowa. We describe the balancing act inherent in maximizing three dimensions of the system: comparability, control and visibility. As part of a series of studies on the rel...
This paper analyzes the initial phases of a large-scale custom software effort, the Worm Community System (WCS), a collaborative system designed for a geographically dispersed community of geneticists. Despite high user satisfaction with the system and interface, and extensive user feedback and analysis, many users experienced difficulties in signi...
The paper summarizes recent work on organizations, artificial intelligence systems, human-computer interaction, etc., which emphasizes thesituated, distributed, andfluid nature of social systems. This contrasts with the traditional way of writing and thinking about social systems which sees them as disembodied, ideal, formal notions of thought. The...
The brain is a troubling object for sociologists. This chapter was written at a time in which sociologists are reexamining topics such as the body, material culture, and the nature of intelligence. We speak easily of the body in a Foucauldian sense as laced through with discourses, constituted intersubjectively, a true body politic with a sociology...
The idea of supporting cooperative work by means of computer systems raises, inter alia, the problem of how to model cooperative work and incorporate such models in computer systems as an infrastructure of the work organization. Cooperative work arrangements ...
Presents a case study of the development and evolution of an
organizational decision support system (ODSS) over a long period of time
and wide geographical area. It uses the design of the International
Classification of Diseases (ICD) to address issues of organizational
decision-making in large, dispersed organizations. Special attention is
paid to...
This article analyzes the strategies and means by which universalist claims about human nature become successful in science. Of specific interest are the conditions under which claims of this sort are taken to be inherently superior to those which are particularistic or context-specific (a hierarchy of values which we term "universality bias"). We...
It is noted that the effort to construct organizational decision
support systems (ODSS) is new to the field of information systems but
draws heavily on previous experience with decision support systems (DSS)
and group decision support systems (GDSS). The conceptual foundations of
this new venture are not well established, but the most logical appro...
Scientific work is heterogeneous, requiring many different actors and viewpoints. It also requires cooperation. The two create tension between divergent viewpoints and the need for generalizable findings. We present a model of how one group of actors managed this tension. It draws on the work of amateurs, professionals, administrators and others co...
Objets fronti_re = s'adaptent pour prendre en compte plusieurs points de vue et maintenir une identité entre eux Cet espace de travail se construit grâce à des objets-frontières tels que des systèmes de classification, qui relient entre eux les concepts communs et les rôles sociaux divergents de chaque groupe professionnel. Les objet-frontière cont...
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... Eventually, this shows that we need heuristics more profound than "resilience", a concept that refers instead to a condition in which nothing is broken. 2 Repair also has a stronger epistemic dimension than resilience and is intimately integrated within the existing ecologies of knowledge (Star and Ruhleder 1996;Domínguez Rubio 2020), while it is socially embedded and culturally informed (Henke 2000;Graham and Thrift 2007;Gerasimova and Chuikina 2009). ...
... 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. ...
... Tab. 1). Star (2015), sind sie so konkret bestimmt und stabil, dass sie die Arbeit sehr unterschiedlicher Akteur:innen aufeinander auszurichten vermögen. In Bezug auf ihre Funktion in den jeweiligen sozialen Welten wird indes ihre Formbarkeit relevant, sodass sich dort in je eigensinniger Weise auf sie bezogen werden kann. ...
... 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. ...
... STS literature addressing nursing practices stresses the invisibility of nurses' organising work as both integral and essential to nursing, and how this invisibility downplays the importance of nursing work and hence the position of the nursing profession. In early work, Timmermans et al. ( 1998 ) have shown that making nursing work visible ( i.e., through the categorisation and evaluation of their work ) makes nurses prone to managerial control. They show that such visibility may hamper instead of improving the autonomous position of nurses and hence recognition of their work, because categorisation and evaluation often rest on traditional notions of care work, stressing nurses' hands-on work at the patient's bedside and overlooking the highly skilled and knowledgeable activities they undertake to enable smooth care delivery across various professional and organisational levels. ...
... 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. ...
... Electricity grids, Hughes argued, are not technically determined, but a result of constant negotiation among a host of heterogeneous actors-a classic STS move. Susan Leigh Star soon applied a more nuanced and ethnographic attention to the 'invisible work' involved in making and maintaining infrastructure (Timmermans, Bowker andStar 1998, Star 1999). She and her colleagues were interested in the success of infrastructure invisibility, in how infrastructure has a taken-for-granted banality (until it breaks down), which often means it is overlooked in social and cultural research. ...
... Just as capital includes, but is not only about, money, so too with the notion of 'lay work'. What counts as 'work' shapes how we think about expertise and relevant social actors (Star and Strauss 1999). Lay or 'informal' health work, is less visible and valued than professionally paid, more highly esteemed health work. ...
... Dans les large technical systems, le système sociotechnique se déploie et se stabilise parallèlement à la mise en invisibilité et à la normalisation de l'infrastructure, autrement dit sa mise en boîte-noire. Les travaux développés par Star (1999Star ( , 2018 dans le courant des Science and Technology Studies proposent de mettre en avant l'infrastructuring (l'infrastructure en train de se faire) par une approche relationnelle de l'infrastructure. Elle explique que « l'infrastructure est un concept fondamentalement relationnel, qui acquiert sa réalité par rapport aux pratiques organisées » (Star 2018 : paragr. ...
... Zugleich benennen sie, wie spontane Rekonfigurationen sozialer Ordnung und die Anerkennung multipler Identitäten in einer ‚Klassifikationsgesellschaft' funktionieren sollen, wenn sie abschließend schreiben: "Die einzige gute Klassifikation ist eine lebendige Klassifikation." 15 iii Workarounds als notwendige Improvisation Sorting Things Out ist ohne Zweifel eine Studie über Bürokratie und bürokratische Ordnung, wobei diese von Bowker und Star stets als sichtbare und unsichtbare Arbeitspraxis und medial-organisatorische Gestaltungsaufgabe aufgefasst werden. Da in jeder Informationsverarbeitung registrierende und identifizierende Techniken angewandt werden -und anthropologisch mit Mary Douglas von einer fortwährenden Orientierung ...