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| Titre : |
Sorting things out : classification and its consequences
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| Auteur(s) : |
Geoffrey C. Bowker, Auteur (et co-auteur)
Susan Leigh Star, Auteur (et co-auteur) |
| Type de document : | Livre |
| Sujets : | Classification -- Informatique ; Sociologie de la connaissance ; Tuberculose -- Epidémiologie ; Apartheid -- Afrique du Sud |
| Résumé : |
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. The authors review archives of classification desig[...] 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. The authors review archives of classification design to understand how decisions have been made. |
| Editeur(s) : | Cambridge (Mass.) : MIT Press |
| Date de publication : | 2000 |
| Collection : | Inside technology |
| Format : | XII-377 p. / ill. / 24 cm |
| Note(s) : |
Bibliogr. p. [335]-365. Index |
| Langue(s) : | Anglais |
| Identifiant : | 978-0-262-52295-3 |
| Lien vers la notice : | https://infodoc.agroparistech.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=161793 |
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