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Geoffrey C. Bowker's Degrees

PhD Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine
Masters Sociology University of California, San Diego
Bachelors Sociology University of California, San Diego

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According to Wikipedia, Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. He moved to UCI at the start of 2012, having held the positions of Professor and Senior Scholar in Cyberscholarship at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information. Prior to that, Bowker was Executive Director and Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor at the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Santa Clara University. Previously, Bowker was chair of the Department of Communication at the University of California - San Diego and has held appointments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Geoffrey C. Bowker's Published Works

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Global assemblages : technology, politics, and ethics as anthropological problems (2005) (1306)
Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment (2009) (488)
The multiple bodies of the medical record : Toward a sociology of an artifact (1996) (353)
Science friction: Data, metadata, and collaboration (2011) (347)
Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and Design (2007) (346)
Introduction: An Agenda for Infrastructure Studies (2009) (322)
Promoting Access to Public Research Data for Scientific, Economic, and Social Development (2004) (277)
Social science, technical systems, and cooperative work: beyond the great divide (1999) (228)
Knowledge Infrastructures: Intellectual Frameworks and Research Challenges (2013) (211)
An International Framework to Promote Access to Data (2004) (205)
Industrial Geophysics. (Book Reviews: Science on the Run. Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920-1940.) (2003) (195)
How to Infrastructure (2002) (173)
Understanding infrastructure: History, heuristics and cyberinfrastructure policy (2007) (161)
Human capital heterogeneity, collaborative relationships, and publication patterns in a multidisciplinary scientific alliance: a comparative case study of two scientific teams (2004) (160)
Values in design (2011) (151)
How to be Universal: Some Cybernetic Strategies, 1943-70 (1993) (148)
Infrastructure and Organizational Transformation: Classifying Nurses’ Work (1996) (131)
Out of machine age?: complexity, sociotechnical systems and actor network theory (2001) (125)
Enacting silence: Residual categories as a challenge for ethics, information systems, and communication (2007) (111)
How things (actor-net) work: Classification, magic and the ubiquity of standards (1996) (102)
Invisible Mediators of Action: Classification and the Ubiquity of Standards (2000) (98)
Collaborative rhythm: temporal dissonance and alignment in collaborative scientific work (2011) (83)
Information Infrastructures for Distributed Collective Practices (2006) (76)
Lest we remember: Organizational forgetting and the production of knowledge (1997) (74)
Information ecology: open system environment for data, memories, and knowing (2007) (73)
Between meaning and machine: Learning to represent the knowledge of communities (2009) (68)
Special Issue: Collaboration in e-Research (2006) (65)
The artisans of desire: The mediation of advertising between product and consumer (1989) (59)
Instrumentalizing the truth of practice (2001) (59)
Modeling Distributed Knowledge Processes in Next Generation Multidisciplinary Alliances* (2000) (59)
The History of Information Infrastructures: The Case of the International Classification of Diseases (1996) (55)
Unsupervised by any other name: Hidden layers of knowledge production in artificial intelligence on social media (2019) (54)
Challenges for Research and Practice in Distributed, Interdisciplinary Collaboration (2006) (47)
Work and infrastructure (1995) (46)
Building Information Infrastructures for Social Worlds - The Role of Classifications and Standards (1998) (43)
A Booming Discipline Short of Discipline: (Social) Studies of Science in France (1987) (43)
Time, Money, and Biodiversity (2008) (38)
Making an Issue out of a Standard (2013) (36)
An Afterword to ‘Infrastructuring and Collaborative Design’ (2018) (35)
Big Data, Big Questions| The Theory/Data Thing (2014) (34)
Science on the run (1994) (32)
An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets (review) (2007) (29)
Knowledge infrastructures: Part II (2016) (27)
Organizing for Multidisciplinary Collaboration: The Case of the Geosciences Network (2008) (27)
The logic of domains (2019) (26)
Of Lungs and Lungers: The Classified Story of Tuberculosis (1997) (25)
THE MULTIPLE BODIES OF THE MEDICAL RECORD:Towards a Sociology of an Artifact - eScholarship (1996) (25)
A Preface to ‘Infrastructuring and Collaborative Design’ (2017) (23)
Prospecting (in) the data sciences (2020) (23)
Second Nature once Removed (1995) (22)
Ecological storytelling and collaborative scientific activities (2002) (21)
Teaching the Radical Catalog (2008) (21)
Usability research challenges for cyberinfrastructure and tools (2006) (20)
Interoperability strategies for scientific cyberinfrastructure: Research and practice (2006) (19)
Towards a virtual organization for data cyberinfrastructure (2009) (17)
The Architecture of Difference: Visibility, Control, and Comparability in Building a Nursing Interventions Classification (2020) (17)
A Well Ordered Reality: Aspects of the Development of Schlumberger, 1920-39 (1987) (15)
The Data Citizen, the Quantified Self, and Personal Genomics (2016) (15)
Interest in Production: On the Configuration of Technology-Bearing Labors for Epistemic IT (2006) (14)
Information Infrastructure ( s ) : Boundaries , Ecologies , Multiplicity (2018) (14)
The Kindness of Strangers: Kinds and Politics in Classification Systems (1998) (14)
Comparative interoperability project: configurations of community, technology, organization (2005) (14)
Work and Information Practices in the Sciences of Biodiversity (2000) (14)
The Theory/Data Thing Commentary (2014) (13)
Introduction to Thinking Infrastructures (2019) (13)
Designing an infrastructure for heterogeneity in ecosystem data, collaborators and organizations (2002) (12)
Mapping the Dimensions of a Dynamic Field (1999) (11)
Sharing Spaces, Crossing Boundaries (2016) (11)
Interview with Tom Kilburn (1993) (11)
Bonnie Nardi and Vicki O'Day, Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart (2004) (10)
Universal informatics: building cyberinfrastructure, interoperating the geosciences (2006) (10)
Playing at work: Understanding the Future of Work Practices at the Institute for the Future (2002) (10)
Building the next generation biological-infor-mation infrastructure (2000) (9)
Building the virtual river: numbers, models, and the politics of water in california (2005) (9)
How Things Change: The History of Sociotechnical Structures (1996) (8)
Introduction: Working with Leigh Star (2016) (8)
Incorporating Social Informatics into the Curriculum for Library and Information Science Professionals (1998) (7)
Humanistic infrastructure studies: hyper-functionality and the experience of the absurd (2020) (7)
Working with human values in design (2012) (7)
Pure, Real and Rational Numbers (2001) (7)
Modest Reviewer Goes on Virtual Voyage: Some Recent Literature of Cyberspace (1998) (7)
Sustainable Knowledge Infrastructures (2018) (7)
1.1 The Long Now of Cyberinfrastructure (2010) (6)
Numbers or no numbers in science studies (2020) (6)
THE NEW KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY (2002) (6)
Pictures from the Subsoil, 1939 (1987) (6)
A community of practice using computer-mediated communication for legitimate peripheral participation (2000) (5)
Sensing In/Security: Sensors as Transnational Security Infrastructures (2020) (5)
4. ALL TOGETHER NOW: SYNCHRONIZATION, SPEED, AND THE FAILURE OF NARRATIVITY (2014) (5)
Extending African Knowledge Infrastructures: Sharing, Creating, Maintaining (2008) (4)
The Manchester heritage (1993) (4)
ECSCW 2003 Computer Supported Scientific Collaboration (CSSC) workshop report (2003) (4)
On the value of "useless data": Infrastructures, biodiversity, and policy. (2015) (4)
ECSCW 2003. Proceedings of the Computer Supported Scientific Collaboration Workshop, Eighth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Helsinki, Finland, 14 September 2003 (2003) (4)
Archival technology in the historical sciences 1800-1997 (1998) (4)
A room with a view: ethnographic work can aid software development over time (1998) (3)
Socio-economic categories in Norwegian censuses up to about 1960 (2002) (3)
From the archive (2010) (3)
Eco-informatics and natural resource management (2006) (3)
Emerging Configurations of Knowledge Expression (2012) (3)
Phenotyping as disciplinary practice: Data infrastructure and the interprofessional conflict over drug use in California (2021) (3)
Ashby's notion of memory and the ontology of technical evolution (2009) (2)
Designing an Infrastructure for Heterogeneity of Ecosystem Data, Collaborators, Organizations (2002) (2)
Life at the Femtosecond (2021) (2)
Accounting practices and networks of accountancy: a comment on `What is measured counts¿ by Kala Saravanamuthu (2004) (2)
8. Sustainable Knowledge Infrastructures (2020) (2)
Susan Leigh Star Special Issue (2015) (2)
Computer-Based Library Information Systems Designing Techniques (2)
Truth and reality in social constructivism (1994) (2)
Methodology for Large Scale Experimentation: A Discussion Report (1998) (2)
The Computerization Time Crunch (2019) (2)
Special Issue on Collaboration and e-Research (2006) (2)
Digital library use (panel session): social practice in design and evaluation (2000) (1)
The hearth of darkness (2020) (1)
Afterword (Memories are made of this) (2009) (1)
Performative Articulations of STS : On Representation , Materiality and Politics (2006) (1)
Energy and the Archive. Two Sources of our Knowledge Practices (2017) (1)
Fiftieth Anniversary of Science, Technology, & Human Values (2022) (1)
Book Review:Opting for Oil: The Political Economy of Technological Change in the West German Chemical Industry, 1945-1961 Raymond G. Stokes (1996) (1)
How Things Work (2002) (1)
The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious (review) (2012) (1)
A Room with a View [and] Cultural Analysis and What Designers Need To Know--A Case of Sometimes Too Much, Sometimes Too Little, and Always Too Late [and] Synthesizing Diverse Perspectives [and] Make Room for Ethnography in Design! (1998) (1)
Sensing networks and security in the urban space (2020) (1)
Thinking about Data Management Planning (2016) (1)
Library Trends 47 (2) 1998: How Classifications Work: Problems and Challenges in an Electronic Age (1998) (1)
The ontological priority of mediation (2010) (1)
Instrumentalizing the Truth of Practice (third printing) (2007) (1)
In Absentia: Designing for Social Learning (2008) (1)
Actor‐Network Theory (2007) (1)
THE EMPIRE OF THE FUTURE (2019) (1)
Energy and the Archive (2017) (0)
Onward to the Past (2014) (0)
Book Review: Barcoding Nature: Shifting Cultures of Taxonomy in an Age of Biodiversity Loss (2014) (0)
If ever time was: the social and scientific perception of time in England and France in the 1830's (1984) (0)
Recording Scientific Knowledge (2006) (0)
Technology and privacy: the new landscape - Review (1999) (0)
Benoît Godin.Measurement and Statistics on Science and Technology: 1920 to the Present.(Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.) xx + 360 pp., apps., index. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. (2007) (0)
Recommended reading (2007) (0)
Book Reviews (2000) (0)
Commentary: Reading the Endless Archive (2020) (0)
6. Life at the Femtosecond (2021) (0)
A Preface to ‘Infrastructuring and Collaborative Design’ (2017) (0)
The three year itch - life with AS3563 (1992) (0)
Table of Contents. (2016) (0)
Narratives of Engagement: Working at the Intersections of Information, Social, and Domain Science (2008) (0)
American Technological Sublime, by David Nye (1996) (0)
Communicating financial information within the company by means of computer modelling (1982) (0)
Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities (review) (2000) (0)
E. Roy Weintraub (ed.), Toward a History of Game Theory, Annual Supplement to History of Political Economy , vol. 24. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1992. Pp. vi + 306. ISBN 0-8223-1253-0. £29.95. (1994) (0)
Steven Darian.Understanding the Language of Science. xi + 248 pp., bibl., index. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. $60 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). (2004) (0)
Can Knowledge Be Distributed? The Dynamics of Knowledge in Interdisciplinary Alliances: Final Report and Yearly Status Reports (2003) (0)
Introduction: How Classifications Work: Problems and Challenges in an Electronic Age (1998) (0)
Reconstructing the Learning Sciences (2016) (0)
Towards a Global Research Infrastructure (2019) (0)
Information aspects of cultural and political divisions: CS/IS iSchools and Bishop's big sort (2016) (0)
The Long Now of Cyberinfrestructure (2010) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2002) (0)
William Aspray. John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing . Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1991. Pp. xvii + 376. ISBN 0-262-01121-2. £31.50. (1992) (0)
1998 IEEE Medal Of Honor (1998) (0)
An Afterword to ‘Infrastructuring and Collaborative Design’ (2018) (0)
In Memoriam (2003) (0)
Scientific rationality versus social construction (1994) (0)
Comparative Interoperability Project : Collaborative Science , Interoperability Strategies , and Distributing Cognition (2005) (0)
How Things Work - eScholarship (2002) (0)
Historiography of information science (2007) (0)
From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics (review) (2004) (0)
Toward a Sociology of an Artifact (2016) (0)
Design and Implementation of Metadata for Indian Fungi (Heterobasidiomycetes): Lessons From Library and Information Science Field (2001) (0)
Session details: Supporting art & literature (2012) (0)
New Directions in Information History (2009) (0)
Volume Contents (2004) (0)
Reflections from Geoffrey Bowker (2010) (0)
Working with Olga Kuchinskay and Katie Vann (2022) (0)
Cognitive Work and Material Practice (2005) (0)
Constructing science, forging technology and manufacturing society (1993) (0)
The Time of Computers: From Babbage and the 1830s to the Present (2019) (0)
Making: The Case of the International Classification of (1991) (0)
Introduction to Library Trends 47 (2) Fall 1998: How Classifications Work: Problems and Challenges in an Electronic Age (1998) (0)
The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization; Elaine Svenonius (Ed.); MIT Press (2001) (0)
The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace (review) (2005) (0)
IEEE Computer Society Awards (1998) (0)

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