Infrastructure and Ethnographic Practice

By Susan Leigh Star. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 2002

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Infrastructuring in participatory design (2014, background): “Complex ethical and political concerns related to information infrastructures are illustrated using examples of problems in various areas of study with, for example, International Classification of Diseases (ICD), racism, colonialism, and sexism (Bowker & Star, 1999).”
The Long Now of Technology Infrastructure: Articulating Tensions in Development (2009, methodology): “Our research was driven by grounded theory methodology (Clarke 2005; Star 1999): iterations of data collection combined with testing against substantively generated theory,and comparison across our cases and with historical and contemporary studies of infrastructure (Bowker, Baker, Millerand and…”
Influence apart from Adoption: How Interaction between Programming and Scientific Practices Shapes Modes of Inquiry in Four Oceanography Teams (2016, background): “Code that works settles into shared libraries or infrastructure and becomes invisible, apparent only at points of breakdown or through contingency planning [59].”
Energy infrastructure and the fate of the nation: Introduction to special issue (2018, background): “The capacity of infrastructures to organise social relations in significant ways is acknowledged by reference to its systemic and foundational character: Star ([13] p.”
Talk and Conceptual Change at Work: Adequate Representation and Epistemic Stance in a Comparative Analysis of Statistical Consulting and Teacher Workgroups (2012, unknown): “Bowker, G. C., & Star, S. L. (1999).”
Turbulent presents, precarious futures: urbanization and the deployment of global infrastructure (2019, methodology): “This work was guided through a method of investigating and understanding infrastructure as relational (Simone, 2014; Star, 1999).”
Software-sorted geographies (2005, unknown): ““One person’s infrastructure” becomes “another’s difficulty” (Leigh-Star, 1999, 390).”
From New Deal Institutions to Capital Markets: Commercial Consumer Risk Scores and the Making of Subprime Mortgage Finance (2009, background): “…such a change means taking up the painstaking search into the most mundane of details so familiar to social studies of science (Bowker & Star, 2000; Star, 1999) and of accountancy (Hopwood, 1987; Hopwood & Miller, 1994); it means exploring the innovations that have re-configured markets, their…”
Understanding the Role of Objects in Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration (2012, background): “Although they are often forgotten, numerous “boring objects” (Star 1999) combine to structure, anchor, and enable collaborative work.”
Charting Time: Timelines as Temporal Boundary Objects (2002, background): “Yet as Yates (1989) and Star (1999) have noted, mundane and”
Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment (2009, background): “The art and science of classification plays an underappreciated but recurring role in the organization of information (Bowker & Star, 1999; Epstein, 2007).”
The human infrastructure of ICTD (2010, methodology): “CSCW researchers Star and Strauss [16] define articulation work as the “work that gets things back ‘on track’ in the face of the unexpected, and modifies action to accommodate unanticipated contingencies.”
Casual Information Visualization: Depictions of Data in Everyday Life (2007, background): “In everyday use, infrastructure is invisible and often goes unexamined [34].”