A Vast Machine

Paul N Edwards

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to mode... Lees meer

Subversion, Conversion, Development

• Hardcover | Engels | Infrastructures
• Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts. This book explores alternative cultural ... Lees meer

Underground

Blake Atwood

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• How Iranians forged a vibrant, informal video distribution infrastructure when their government banned all home video technology in 1983. In 1983, the... Lees meer

Standards

Lawrence Busch

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• An investigation into standards, the invisible infrastructures of our technical, moral, social, and physical worlds. Standards are the means by which ... Lees meer

The Politics of Invisibility

Olga Kuchinskaya

• Hardcover | Engels | Infrastructures
• Lessons from the massive Chernobyl nuclear accident about how we deal with modern hazards that are largely imperceptible. Before Fukushima, the most n... Lees meer

Gaming the Metrics

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• How the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced new forms of academic fraud and misconduct. The traditional aca... Lees meer

System

Clifford Siskin

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• The role that "system" has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own "computational universe." A sys... Lees meer

Repairing Infrastructures

Christopher R Henke, Benjamin Sims

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• An investigation of the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life. Inf... Lees meer

Spam

Finn Brunton

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• What spam is, how it works, and how it has shaped online communities and the Internet itself. The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a... Lees meer

Knowledge Machines

Eric T Meyer, Ralph Schroeder

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• An examination of the ways that digital and networked technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in disciplines from astronomy to lite... Lees meer

Proxies

Dylan Mulvin

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• How those with the power to design technology, in the very moment of design, are allowed to imagine who is included--and who is excluded--in the futur... Lees meer

Boundary Objects and Beyond

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• The multifaceted work of the late Susan Leigh Star is explored through a selection of her writings and essays by friends and colleagues. Susan Leigh S... Lees meer

Riding the New York Subway

Stefan Hohne

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• A history of New York subway passengers as they navigated the system's constraints while striving for individuality, or at least a smooth ride. When t... Lees meer

The Demonstration Society

Claude Rosental

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• Today, as in the past, public demonstrations are not only tools to prove, persuade, and promote, but also fundamental forms of social interaction and ... Lees meer

Energy at the End of the World

Laura Watts

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world. The islands of Orkney, off the northern coast of Scotland,... Lees meer

The Connectivity of Things

Sebastian Giessmann

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• A media history of the material and infrastructural features of networking practices, a German classic translated for the first time into English. Net... Lees meer

The Politics of Invisibility

Olga Kuchinskaya

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• Lessons from the massive Chernobyl nuclear accident about how we deal with modern hazards that are largely imperceptible. Before Fukushima, the most n... Lees meer

Waste Is Information

Dietmar Offenhuber

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• The relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three waste tracking and partici... Lees meer

Knowledge for Sale

Lawrence Busch

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why... Lees meer

Knowledge Machines

Eric T. (Research Fellow, University of Oxford) Meyer, Ralph (Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford) Schroeder

• Hardcover | Infrastructures
• An examination of the ways that digital and networked technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in disciplines from astronomy to lite... Lees meer

A Billion Little Pieces

Jordan Frith

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• How RFID, a ubiquitous but often invisible mobile technology, identifies tens of billions of objects as they move through the world. RFID (Radio Frequ... Lees meer

Documenting Aftermath

Megan Finn

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• An examination of how changing public information infrastructures shaped people's experience of earthquakes in Northern California in 1868, 1906, and ... Lees meer

Fragilities

Fernando Dominguez Rubio, Jerome Denis

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics. At a ... Lees meer

Beyond the Big Ditch

Ashley Carse

• Paperback | Engels | Infrastructures
• A historical and ethnographic study of the conflict between global transportation and rural development as the two intersect at the Panama Canal. In t... Lees meer