Science on the Run: Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920-1940

By Geoffrey C. Bowker

Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

By Geoffrey C. Bowker

What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian,...

Memory Practices in the Sciences

By Geoffrey C. Bowker

Sorting Things Out

By Susan Leigh Star, Geoffrey C. Bowker

A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions.What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted...

Memory Practices in the Sciences

By Geoffrey C. Bowker

How the way we hold knowledge about the past—in books, in file folders, in databases—affects the kind of stories we tell about the past.The way we record knowledge, and the web of technical, formal...

Social Science Technical Systems and Cooperative Work

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The "great divide" between the approaches of systems developers and those of social scientists to computer supported cooperative work has been vigorously debated in the systems development literatu...

Social Science Technical Systems and Cooperative Work

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Cosmopolitan Commons

By Nil Disco, Eda Kranakis, Geoffrey C. Bowker

Spam

By Geoffrey C. Bowker, Finn Brunton

Monitoring Movements in Development Aid

By Brit Ross Winthereik, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Paul N. Edwards, Casper Bruun Jensen