Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star

Sorting Things Out

Classification and Its Consequences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions

Produktdetails

• Inside Technology
• Verlag: MIT Press / The MIT Press
• 2000.
• Seitenzahl: 389
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780262522953
• ISBN-10: 0262522950
• Artikelnr.: 21896406

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor and Director of the Evoke Lab at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coauthor (with Susan Leigh Star) of Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences and the author of Memory Practices in the Sciences, both published by the MIT Press. Susan Leigh Star was Doreen Boyce Chair for Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh.