Bruno Latour

Steve Woolgar

"The pioneering 'laboratory study' in the sociology of scientific knowledge. . . . The first and, deservedly, the most influential book-length account of day-to-day work in a single laboratory setting."-- ISIS.

The Construction of Scientific Facts

Laboratory Life

The Social Construction of Scientific Facts

Daniel Neyland

The book aims to explore how governance and accountability are mediated through material relations involving ordinary everyday objects and technologies. It draws on empirical materials in three main areas: waste management and recycling; the regulation and control of traffic; and security and passenger movement in airports.

Ontology and Accountability

Mundane Governance

Claes-Fredrik Helgesson

David Moats

Else Vogel

Edited by expert scholars, this volume explores the 'imposter' through empirical cases, including click farms, bikers, business leaders and fraudulent scientists, providing insights into the social relations and cultural forms from which they emerge.

Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans

The Imposter as Social Theory

Annamaria Carusi

Aud Sissel Hoel

Timothy Webmoor

Digitalization and computerization are now pervasive in science. This has deep consequences for our understanding of scientific knowledge and of the scientific process, and challenges longstanding assumptions and traditional frameworks of thinking of scientific knowledge. Digital media and computational processes challenge our conception of the way in which perception and cognition work in science, of the objectivity of science, and the nature of scientific objects. They bring about new relationships between science, art and other visual media, and new ways of practicing science and organizing scientific work, especially as new visual media are being adopted by science studies scholars in their own practice. This volume reflects on how scientists use images in the computerization age, and how digital technologies are affecting the study of science.

Visualization in the Age of Computerization

Steve Woolgar

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