UID:
almafu_9959239029502883
Umfang:
1 online resource (413 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780262281607
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0262281600
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9781435691858
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1435691857
Serie:
Inside technology
Inhalt:
This book draws on the tools of science and technology studies and economic sociology to reconceptualize the intersection of economy and technology, suggesting materiality - the idea that social existence involves not only actors and social relations but also objects - as the theoretical point of convergence.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents ; Introduction ; I - General Concerns: Economy, Materiality, Power; 1 - Economic Markets and the Rise of Interactive Agencements: From Prosthetic Agencies to Habilitated Agencies; 2 - The Centrality of Materiality: Economic Theorizing from Xenophon to Home Economics and Beyond; 3 - Command Performance: Exploring What STS Thinks It Takes to Build a Market; II - Infrastructure ; 4 - The Finitist Accountant; 5 - Global Financial Technologies: Scoping Systems That Raise the World
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6 - The Politics of Patent Law and Its Material Effects: The Changing Relationship between Universities and the MarketplaceIII - Technology and the Material Arrangements of the Market; 7 - Technology, Agency, and Financial Price Data; 8 - Tools of the Trade: The Socio-Technology of Arbitrage in a Wall Street Trading Room; 9 - Trading-Room Telephones and the Identification of Counterparts; IV - Technology, Economy, Use; 10 - Understanding and Reframing the Electronic Consumption Experience: The Interactional Ambiguities of Mediated Coordination
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11 - Six Degrees of Reputation: The Use and Abuse of Online Review and Recommendation Systems12 - Transfer Troubles: Outsourcing Information Technology in Higher Education; About the Authors; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780262162524
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0262162520
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
MIT scholarship online
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