… In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories
and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, they investigate a …

This article presents Information Infrastructure Studies, a research area that takes up some
core issues in digital information and organization research. Infrastructure Studies …

… to our information, Geoffrey Bowker examines how, over the past … its recording is so protean,
Bowker reminds us of the centrality … Both, Bowker argues, packaged time in ways indexed by …

National Science Foundation support for scientific cyberinfrastructure dates to the 1960s.
Since about 2000, however, efforts in cyberinfrastructure development have gathered …

Biodiversity is a data-intense science, drawing as it does on data from a large number of
disciplines in order to build up a coherent picture of the extent and trajectory of life on earth. …

make it visible when it needs to be repaired or remapped. It is tricky to study for this reason.
Perhaps for these reasons, infrastructure is an often neglected aspect of communication …

When scientists from two or more disciplines work together on related problems, they often
face what we call ‘science friction’. As science becomes more data-driven, collaborative, and …

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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 …

In this engaging account, Geoffrey Bowker reveals how Schlumberger devised a method of
testing potential oil fields, produced a rhetoric, and secured a position that allowed it to …