This collection of articles provides a comprehensive overview of personal and public issues related to social change and how they shape scientific and technical knowledge.

A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions. What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of ...

Standardization is one of the defining aspects of modern life, its presence so pervasive that it is usually taken for granted. However cumbersome, onerous, or simply puzzling ...

This book is the first to directly address the question of how to bridge what has been termed the "great divide" between the approaches of systems developers and those of ...

Nancy K. Baym′s Tune In, Log On is an ethnographic study of an Internet soap opera fan group. Bridging the fields of computer-mediated communication and audience studies, the ...