Ecologies of Knowledge - Work and Politics in Science and Technology

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.

About the author

Susan Leigh Star is Associate Professor of Sociology and faculty affiliate in Women's Studies and Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Affiliate Research Scientist at the Institute for Research on Learning, Palo Alto. She is the author of Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty, and editor of The Cultures of Computing.

Product details

• Assisted by: Susan Leigh Star (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.1995
• EAN: 9780791425657
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-2565-7
• No. of pages: 434
• Series: Suny Series in Feminist Critic; Suny Science, Technology, and
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Soziologie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Pop Arts / Pop Culture