Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: The digitalSTS Community ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Materiality
6. Introduction 11
7. Unfolding Digital Materiality: How Engineers Struggle to Shape Tangible and Fluid Objects 17
8. The Life and Death of Data 42
9. Materiality Methodology, and Some Tricks of the Trade in the Study of Data and Specimens 43
10. Digital Visualizations for Thinking with the Environment 61
11. Gender
12. Introduction 77
13. If “Diversity” Is the Answer, What Is the Question? Understanding Diversity Advocacy in Voluntaristic Technology Projects 81
14. Feminist STS and Ubiquitous Computing: Investigating the Nature of the “Nature” of Ubicomp 99
15. Affect and Emotion in digitalSTS 117
16. The Ambiguous Boundaries of Computer Source Code and Some of Its Political Consequences 136
17. Global Inequalities
18. Introduction 157
19. Venture Ed: Recycling Hype, Fixing Futures, and the Temporal Order of Edtech 161
20. Dangerous Networks: Internet Regulations as Racial Border Control in Italy 178
21. Social Movements and Digital Technology: A Research Agenda 198
22. Living in the Broken City: Infrastructural Inequity, Uncertainty, and the Materiality of the Digital in Brazil 221
23. Sound Bites, Sentiments, and Accents: Digitizing Communicative Labor in the Era of Global Outsourcing 240
24. Infrastructure
25. Introduction 263
26. Infrastructural Competence 267
27. Getting “There” from the Ever-Changing “Here”: Following Digital Directions 280
28. Digitized Coral Reefs 300
29. Of “Working Ontologists” and “High-Quality Human Components”: The Politics of Semantic Infrastructures 326
30. The Energy Walk: Infrastructuring the Imagination 349
31. Software
32. Introduction 365
33. From Affordances to Accomplishments: PowerPoint and Excel at NASA 369
34. Misuser Innovations: The Role of “Misuses” and “Misusers” in Digital Communication Technologies 393
35. Knowing Algorithms 412
36. Keeping Software Present: Software as a Timely Object for STS Studies of the Digital 423
37. Visualizing the Social
38. Introduction 447
39. Tracing Design Ecologies: Collecting and Visualizing Ephemeral Data as a Method in Design and Technology Studies 451
40. Data Sprints: A Collaborative Format in Digital Controversy Mapping 472
41. Smart Artifacts Mediating Social Viscosity 497
42. Actor-Network versus Network Analysis versus Digital Networks: Are We Talking about the Same Networks? 510
43. Acknowledgments 525
44. Contributors 529
45. Index 539