Power, Technology and the Phenomenology of Conventions: On being Allergic to Onions

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Actor-network theory and material semiotics (2009, background): “First, it was argued that its studies were often centered, managerialist, and even military in character, attending to the powerful, sometimes in functionalist and masculinist mode (Star 1991).”
Infrastructuring in participatory design (2014, background): “Furthermore, Neumann and Star (1996) identified a paradox inherent to information infrastructures that is particularly relevant for PD: “good working infrastructure is transparent to use, yet good PD makes the problematics of use visible” (p.”
Socialization in an Open Source Software Community: A Socio-Technical Analysis (2005, background): “Another potential bias with ANT is the privileging of one perspective, most forcefully demonstrated by Star (1991).”