CI Studies Bibliography – STS

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ToC rev. 29 May 2022

Laser, Stefan, Anne Pasek, Estrid Sørensen, Mél Hogan, Mace Ojala, Jens Fehrenbacher, Maximilian Gregor Hepach, Leman Çelik, and Koushik Ravi Kumar. “The Environmental Footprint of Social Media Hosting: Tinkering with Mastodon.” European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) (blog), 2022. https://www.easst.net/article/the-environmental-footprint-of-social-media-hosting-tinkering-with-mastodon/. Cite
Douglas-Jones, Rachel, Antonia Walford, and Nick Seaver. “Introduction: Towards an Anthropology of Data.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27, no. S1 (2021): 9–25. https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9655.13477. Cite
Tkacz, Nathaniel, Mário Henrique da Mata Martins, João Porto de Albuquerque, Flávio Horita, and Giovanni Dolif Neto. “Data Diaries: A Situated Approach to the Study of Data.” Big Data & Society 8, no. 1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951721996036. Cite
Mullaney, Thomas S., Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip, eds. Your Computer Is on Fire. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2020. Cite
Malazita, James W., Ezra J. Teboul, and Hined Rafeh. “Digital Humanities as Epistemic Cultures: How DH Labs Make Knowledge, Objects, and Subjects.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 14, no. 3 (2020). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/3/000465/000465.html. Cite
Mercelis, Joris. Beyond Bakelite: Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention. Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2020. Cite
Edwards, Paul N. “Infrastructuration: On Habits, Norms and Routines as Elements of Infrastructure.” In Thinking Infrastructures, 355–66. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062022. Cite
Korn, Matthias, Wolfgang Reißmann, Tobias Röhl, and David Sittler, eds. Infrastructuring Publics. Medien Der Kooperation. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20725-0. Cite
Vertesi, Janet, and David Ribes, eds. DigitalSTS: A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2019. Cite
Sovacool, Benjamin K., Katherine Lovell, and Marie Blanche Ting. “Reconfiguration, Contestation, and Decline: Conceptualizing Mature Large Technical Systems.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 43, no. 6 (2018): 1066–97. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243918768074. Cite Download
Sørensen, Estrid, and Laura Kocksch. “Data Centres, Data Owners, Data Lakes - Infrastructures and Flow in Science & Technology Studies.” Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), 2018. Cite
Turner, Roger. “Presenting Infrastructural Science.” Blog. Picturing Meteorology (blog), 2018. https://picturingmeteorology.com/home/2018/1/29/presenting-infrastructural-science. Cite
Strebel, Ignaz, Alain Bovet, and Philippe Sormani, eds. Repair Work Ethnographies: Revisiting Breakdown, Relocating Materiality. Palgrave McMillan, 2018. https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9789811321092351. Cite
Jackson, Steven J. “Repair as Transition: Time, Materiality, and Hope.” In Repair Work Ethnographies: Revisiting Breakdown, Relocating Materiality, 337–47. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9789811321092#. Cite
Edwards, Paul N. “The Mechanics of Invisibility: On Habit and Routine as Elements of Infrastructure.” In Infrastructure Space, 2017. Berlin: Ruby Press, 2017. http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/Edwards%202017%20Mechanics%20of%20Invisibility.pdf. Cite
Ruby, Ilka, and Andreas Ruby. Infrastructure Space. Berlin: Ruby Press, 2017. Cite
Geoghegan, Bernard Dionysius. “Mind the Gap: Spiritualism and the Infrastructural Uncanny.” Critical Inquiry 42, no. 4 (2016): 899–922. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26547644. Cite
Bakke, Gretchen. The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. Cite
Kaltenbrunner, Wolfgang. “Infrastructural Inversion as a Generative Resource in Digital Scholarship.” Science as Culture 24, no. 1 (2015): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2014.917621. Cite
Williams, Robin, Sonia Liff, Mark Winksel, and Fred Steward. “The Politics of Innovation for Environmental Sustainability: Celebrating the Contribution of Stewart Russell (1955–2011).” Science & Technology Studies 27, no. 3 (2014). Cite
Jackson, Steven J., and Laewoo Kang. “Breakdown, Obsolescence and Reuse: HCI and the Art of Repair.” CHI ’14: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014 (2014): 449–58. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557332. Cite
Jackson, Steven J. “Rethinking Repair.” In Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality and Society, 221–40. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2014. Cite
Knowles, Scott Gabriel. “Learning from Disaster?: The History of Technology and the Future of Disaster Research.” Technology and Culture 55, no. 4 (2014): 773–84. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0110. Cite
Sage, Daniel, Andrew Dainty, Kjell Tryggestad, Lise Justesen, and Jan Mouritsen. “Building with Wildlife: Project Geographies and Cosmopolitics in Infrastructure Construction.” Construction Management and Economics 32, no. 7–8 (2014): 773–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2014.911933. Cite
Larkin, Brian. “The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure.” Annual Review of Anthropology 42, no. 1 (2013): 327–43. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092412-155522. Cite
Silvast, Antti, Hannu Hänninen, and Sampsa Hyysalo. “Energy in Society: Energy Systems and Infrastructures in Society.” Science & Technology Studies 26, no. 3 (2013): 3–13. http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=5&sid=7378d1c8-4410-474c-a7d5-2411b2bb06e3%40sessionmgr4006&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=93288400&db=a9h. Cite
Jensen, Casper Bruun, and Brit Ross Winthereik. Monitoring Movements in Development Aid: Recursive Partnerships and Infrastructures. Infrastructures. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2013. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/monitoring-movements-development-aid. Cite
Ribes, David, and Steven J. Jackson. “Data Bite Man: The Work of Sustaining a Long-Term Study.” In “Raw Data” Is an Oxymoron, 146–66. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013. http://laca-main.s3.amazonaws.com/rawdata.pdf. Cite
Von Schnitzler, Antina. “Traveling Technologies: Infrastructure, Ethical Regimes, and the Materiality of Politics in South Africa.” Cultural Anthropology 28, no. 4 (2013): 670–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/cuan.12032. Cite
Bijker, Wiebe E., Thomas Parke Hughes, and Trevor Pinch, eds. The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Anniversary ed. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2012. Cite
Salovaara, Antti, Sacha Helfenstein, and Antti Oulasvirta. “Everyday Appropriations of Information Technology: A Study of Creative Uses of Digital Cameras.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 62, no. 12 (2011): 2347–63. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.21643. Cite
Irani, Lilly, Janet Vertesi, Paul Dourish, Kavita Philip, and Rebecca E. Grinter. “Postcolonial Computing: A Lens on Design and Development.” In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1311–20. CHI ’10. Atlanta, Georgia, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753522. Cite
Klein, Ursula, and E. C. Spary, eds. Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe: Between Market and Laboratory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Cite
Daston, Lorraine, and Peter Galison. Objectivity. Paperback ed. New York, NY: Zone Books, 2010. Cite
Bowker, Geoffrey C., Karen Baker, Florence Miller, and David Ribes. “Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment.” In In Hunsinger et al. (Eds) International Handbook of Internet Research, 97–117. Springer, 2010. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.454.2119. Cite
Suchman, Lucy. “Reconfigurations.” In Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions, 2nd ed., 328. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/humanmachine-reconfigurations/9D53E602BA9BB5209271460F92D00EFE. Cite
Suchman, Lucy. Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. https://seeingcollaborations.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/suchman_humanmachinereconfigurations.pdf. Cite
Van der Vleuten, Erik. “Understanding Network Societies: Two Decades of Large Technical System Studies.” In Networking Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Shaping of Europe, 1850-2000, 279–314. Science History Publications/USA, 2006. Cite
Van der Vleuten, Erik. “Infrastructures and Societal Change: A View from the Large Technical Systems Field.” Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 16, no. 3 (2004): 395–414. https://doi.org/10.1080/0953732042000251160. Cite
Edwards, Paul N. “Infrastructure and Modernity: Force, Time, and Social Organization in the History of Sociotechnical Systems.” In Modernity and Technology, 185–225. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. Cite
Lemonnier, Pierre, ed. Technological Choices: Transformation in Material Cultures since the Neolithic. Reprint. Material Cultures. London: Routledge, 2002. Cite
Galison, Peter. Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Cite
Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg. Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube. Writing Science. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1997. Cite
Latour, Bruno. “On Technical Mediation: Philosophy, Sociology, Genealogy.” Common Knowledge 3, no. 2 (1994): 29–64. http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/54-TECHNIQUES-GB.pdf. Cite
Williams, Rosalind. “Cultural Origins and Environmental Implications of Large Technological Systems.” Science in Context 6, no. 2 (1993): 377–403. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269889700001459. Cite
Pinch, Trevor J., and Wiebe E. Bijker. “The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other.” Social Studies of Science 14, no. 3 (1984): 399–441. http://www.jstor.org/stable/285355. Cite
Hughes, Thomas P. Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Cite
Winner, Langdon. “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” Daedalus 109, no. 1 (1980): 121–36. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652. Cite
Hughes, Thomas P. “Technological Momentum in History: Hydrogenation in Germany 1898–1933.” Past and Present 44, no. 1 (1969): 106–32. https://doi.org/10.1093/past/44.1.106. Cite
Williams, Rosalind. “All That Is Solid Melts into Air’: Historians of Technology in the Information Revolution.” Technology and Culture 41, no. 4 (n.d.): 641–88. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25147592. Cite

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