Author: R R Bowker Publishing
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835242011
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1326
Book Description
Bowker's Directory of Videocassettes for Children 1999
Author: R R Bowker Publishing
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835242011
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1326
Book Description
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835242011
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1326
Book Description
Bowker's Complete Video Directory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home video systems industry
Languages : en
Pages : 2200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home video systems industry
Languages : en
Pages : 2200
Book Description
Subject Guide to Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3054
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3054
Book Description
Publishers' Trade List Annual, 2000
Author: Bowker
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835243162
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835243162
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Sorting Things Out
Author: Geoffrey C. Bowker
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262522950
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
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 death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification—the scaffolding of information infrastructures. In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, they investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis. The authors emphasize the role of invisibility in the process by which classification orders human interaction. They examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary. They also explore systems of classification as part of the built information environment. Much as an urban historian would review highway permits and zoning decisions to tell a city's story, the authors review archives of classification design to understand how decisions have been made. Sorting Things Out has a moral agenda, for each standard and category valorizes some point of view and silences another. Standards and classifications produce advantage or suffering. Jobs are made and lost; some regions benefit at the expense of others. How these choices are made and how we think about that process are at the moral and political core of this work. The book is an important empirical source for understanding the building of information infrastructures.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262522950
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
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 death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification—the scaffolding of information infrastructures. In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, they investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis. The authors emphasize the role of invisibility in the process by which classification orders human interaction. They examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary. They also explore systems of classification as part of the built information environment. Much as an urban historian would review highway permits and zoning decisions to tell a city's story, the authors review archives of classification design to understand how decisions have been made. Sorting Things Out has a moral agenda, for each standard and category valorizes some point of view and silences another. Standards and classifications produce advantage or suffering. Jobs are made and lost; some regions benefit at the expense of others. How these choices are made and how we think about that process are at the moral and political core of this work. The book is an important empirical source for understanding the building of information infrastructures.
Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose Arny
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1816
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1816
Book Description
Bowker's Complete Video Directory 2001
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780835244275
Category : Films for the hearing impaired
Languages : en
Pages : 2166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780835244275
Category : Films for the hearing impaired
Languages : en
Pages : 2166
Book Description
Information Industry Directory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Data centers
Languages : en
Pages : 1784
Book Description
Comprehensive directory of databases as well as services "involved in the production and distribution of information in electronic form." There is a detailed subject index and function/service classification as well as name, keyword, and geographical location indexes.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Data centers
Languages : en
Pages : 1784
Book Description
Comprehensive directory of databases as well as services "involved in the production and distribution of information in electronic form." There is a detailed subject index and function/service classification as well as name, keyword, and geographical location indexes.
Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory
Author: Carolyn Farquhar Ulrich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 2402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 2402
Book Description
R.R. Bowker's American Library Directory Resource Guide
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description