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Susan Leigh Star

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#537

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#650

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#247

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Susan Leigh Star's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Susan Leigh Star was an American sociologist. She specialized in the study of information in modern society; information worlds; information infrastructure; classification and standardization; sociology of science; sociology of work; and the history of science, medicine, technology, and communication/information systems. She commonly used the qualitative methods methodology and feminist theory approach. She was also known for developing the concept of boundary objects and for contributions to computer-supported cooperative work.

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Susan Leigh Star's Published Works

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Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39 (1989) (8973)
The Ethnography of Infrastructure (1999) (2465)
Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure: Design and Access for Large Information Spaces (1996) (2417)
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (1999) (2327)
The Structure of Ill-Structured Solutions: Boundary Objects and Heterogeneous Distributed Problem Solving (1989) (1502)
Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice (1988) (1498)
This is Not a Boundary Object: Reflections on the Origin of a Concept (2010) (1498)
Layers of Silence, Arenas of Voice: The Ecology of Visible and Invisible Work (1999) (1072)
Power, Technology and the Phenomenology of Conventions: On being Allergic to Onions (1990) (922)
Standards and their stories : how quantifying, classifying, and formalizing practices shape everyday life (2009) (425)
Steps towards an ecology of infrastructure: complex problems in design and access for large-scale collaborative systems (1994) (313)
Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty (1989) (272)
Analyzing due process in the workplace (1986) (265)
Analyzing due process in the workplace (1986) (260)
Ecologies of knowledge : work and politics in science and technology (1996) (232)
Social science, technical systems, and cooperative work: beyond the great divide (1999) (228)
The Cultures of Computing (1995) (205)
Scientific Work and Uncertainty (1985) (180)
How to Infrastructure (2002) (173)
Infrastructure and ethnographic practice: working on the fringes (2002) (165)
Simplification in Scientific Work: An Example from Neuroscience Research (1983) (162)
Working together: Symbolic interactionism, activity theory, and information systems (1996) (142)
Infrastructure and Organizational Transformation: Classifying Nurses’ Work (1996) (131)
Steps toward an ecology of infrastructure (1996) (125)
Social informatics of digital library use and infrastructure (1996) (111)
Enacting silence: Residual categories as a challenge for ethics, information systems, and communication (2007) (111)
Making Infrastructure: The Dream of a Common Language (1996) (108)
Human centered systems in the perspective of organizational and social informatics (1998) (106)
How things (actor-net) work: Classification, magic and the ubiquity of standards (1996) (102)
Living Grounded Theory: Cognitive and Emotional Forms of Pragmatism (2007) (101)
Invisible Mediators of Action: Classification and the Ubiquity of Standards (2000) (98)
Digital libraries: Situating use in changing information infrastructure (2000) (91)
The trojan door: Organizations, work, and the “open black box” (1992) (91)
Cooperation Without Consensus in Scientific Problem Solving: Dynamics of Closure in Open Systems (1993) (83)
Triangulating Clinical and Basic Research: British Localizationists, 1870–1906 (1986) (73)
Conceptual foundations for the development of organizational decision support systems (1990) (69)
Situations vs. standards in long-term, wide-scale decision-making: the case of the International Classification of Diseases (1991) (68)
This Is not a Boundary-Object (2010) (63)
THE MANAGEMENT AND DYNAMICS OF ANOMALIES IN SCIENTIFIC WORK (1987) (59)
Introduction: The Sociology of Science and Technology (1988) (52)
Work and infrastructure (1995) (46)
Grounded Classification: Grounded Theory and Faceted Classification (1998) (44)
Building Information Infrastructures for Social Worlds - The Role of Classifications and Standards (1998) (43)
Infrastructure and Ethnographic Practice (2002) (38)
Feminism and Sexuality in the 1980s (1986) (36)
9. Craft vs. Commodity, Mess vs. Transcendence: How the Right Tool Became the Wrong One in the Case of Taxidermy and Natural History (1992) (35)
Epilogue: Work and Practice in Social Studies of Science, Medicine, and Technology (1995) (30)
The Skin, the Skull, and the Self: Toward a Sociology of the Brain (1992) (29)
Of Lungs and Lungers: The Classified Story of Tuberculosis (1997) (25)
Regions of the Mind (1991) (17)
Anselm Strauss: An Appreciation (1997) (12)
Building the next generation biological-infor-mation infrastructure (2000) (9)
On Coming Home and Intellectual Generosity (1998) (9)
“It's infrastructure all the way down” (keynote address) (2000) (7)
Pure, Real and Rational Numbers (2001) (7)
Listening for connections (1995) (6)
Institutionelle Ökologie, ›Übersetzungen‹ und Grenzobjekte Amateure und Professionelle im Museum of Ver tebrate Zoology in Berkeley, 1907–39 (1989) (2017) (5)
Universality Biases (1990) (5)
ALCHEMIST: support for emergent models of work practices in collaborative systems (1994) (4)
Extending African Knowledge Infrastructures: Sharing, Creating, Maintaining (2008) (4)
Organizational memory (1991) (3)
Science and Technology, Social Study of: Computers and Information Technology (2001) (2)
Residual Categories: Silence, Absence and Being an Other (2010) (2)
Convergences and divergences: Feminist comments on Raeithel's article (1994) (1)
Mourning Light: The Ethnography of Science and Love (2010) (1)
Digital library use (panel session): social practice in design and evaluation (2000) (1)
English and Emerging Technologies (1998) (1)
Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty. (1992) (1)
Library Trends 47 (2) 1998: How Classifications Work: Problems and Challenges in an Electronic Age (1998) (1)
Information Technologies and Social Orders@@@The Cultures of Computing (1997) (0)
iSchool Proposal for Themed Wildcard Session on New Information Systems Methods (2008) (0)
Introduction: How Classifications Work: Problems and Challenges in an Electronic Age (1998) (0)
Introduction (1994) (0)
Linking Brain Research to Educational Policy : Pitfalls or Promise ? III . WHO ' S DOING WHAT ? SOME SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS (2011) (0)
Grounded Theory leben (2017) (0)
Science and Technology Studies (STS) in iSchools (2010) (0)
Grounded Theory leben Kognitive und emotionale Formen des Pragmatismus (2007) (2017) (0)
Making Music With Cases: Symposium on the Work of Howard S. Becker (2000) (0)
Review: Freud's Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones, by Brenda Maddox. Cambridge, MA: DaCapo/Perseus Press, 2007. 384 pp (2008) (0)
Introduction to Library Trends 47 (2) Fall 1998: How Classifications Work: Problems and Challenges in an Electronic Age (1998) (0)

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