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(0)Geoffrey C. Bowker
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
We live in a world riven through with standards. To understand more of their deep, rich past is to understand ourselves better.The two volumes, Standardization in the Middle Ages. Volume 1: The North and Standardization in the Middle Ages. Volume 2: Europe, turn to the Middle Ages to give a deeper understanding of the medieval ideas and practices that produced-and were produced by-standards and standardization. At first glance, the Middle Ages might...
Author
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Susan Leigh Star's (1954-2010) research encompasses aspects of infrastructural and social theory, knowledge ecologies, feminism and theories of marginality. For the first time, this volume introduces the American science and technology sociologist's most important writings in German. Her texts on border objects, marginality, infrastructures and standards are commented upon by academics and scientists in these fields, and analyzed for their relevance...
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Digital media everyday inscribe new patterns of time, promising instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and profound new advantages in speed. The essays in this volume reconsider these outward interfaces of convenience by calling attention to their supporting infrastructures, the networks of digital time that exert pressures of conformity and standardization on the temporalities of lived experience and have important...