Science on the Run: Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger 1920-1940 (Övrig)
avGeoffrey C. Bowker
ISBN: 9780262023672 - UTGIVEN: 1994-03-09This is the story of how one company created and codified a new science "on the run," away from the confines of the laboratory. By construing its service as scientific, Schlumberger was able to get the edge on the competition and construct an enviable niche for itself in a fast-growing industry.In t[...]
Sorting Things Out (Häftad)
avGeoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star
ISBN: 9780262522953 - UTGIVEN: 200010What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples [...]
Memory Practices in the Sciences (Häftad)
avGeoffrey C. Bowker
ISBN: 9780262524896 - UTGIVEN: 200803The way we record knowledge, and the web of technical, formal, and social practices that surrounds it, inevitably affects the knowledge that we record. The ways we hold knowledge about the past -- in handwritten manuscripts, in printed books, in file folders, in databases -- shape the kind of storie[...]
