As both technologies and organizations undergo dramatic changes in form and function,
organizational researchers are increasingly turning to concepts of innovation, emergence …

No work is inherently either visible or invisible. We always “see” work through a selection of
indicators: straining muscles, finished artifacts, a changed state of affairs. The indicators …

1 It is on this premise, for example, that Brigitte Jordan and her colleagues have been
developing what they call “workplace interaction analysis laboratories,” as a forum within …

This paper explores the relevance of recent feminist reconstructions of objectivity for the
development of alternative practices of technology production and use. I take as my starting …

The Second Edition of Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social
Choices is a collection of 78 articles that examine the social aspects of computerization from …

This paper follows recent science studies in theorizing information technologies as socio‐
material configurations, aligned into more and less durable forms. The study of how new …

Leigh Star takes up the theme of women's invisibility in enterprises of technology production
and use and calls for a recognition of articulation work as vital to the development of a …

This article outlines a distinctive, albeit not entirely unprecedented, research agenda for the
sociolegal study of contracts. In the past, law and society scholars have tended to examine …

In this paper the author considers some new resources for thinking about how capacities for
action are configured at the human-machine interface, informed by developments in feminist …

The argument presented in this article is that the premises governing human-technology
interaction partly derive from the distinctive ways by which each technology defines a …