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Geoffrey C. Bowker

Geoffrey C. Bowker is Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University.

Memory Practices in the SciencesMemory Practices in the Sciences
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Paper / April 2008
How the way we hold knowledge about the past—in books, in file folders, in databases—affects the kind of stories we tell about that past.
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Memory Practices in the SciencesMemory Practices in the Sciences
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Cloth / February 2006
How the way we hold knowledge about the past—in books, in file folders, in databases—affects the kind of stories we tell about that past.
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Sorting Things OutSorting Things Out
Classification and Its Consequences
Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star
Paper / August 2000
Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world.
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Sorting Things OutSorting Things Out
Classification and Its Consequences
Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star
Cloth / October 1999
Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world.
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Science on the RunScience on the Run
Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920-1940
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Cloth / February 1994
In this engaging account, Geoffrey Bowker reveals how Schlumberger devised a method of testing potential oil fields, produced a rhetoric, and secured a position that allowed it to manipulate the definition of what a technology is.
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