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Power of Position

Classification and the Biodiversity Sciences

by Robert D. Montoya

ISBN: 9780262045278

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 24, 2022

How biodiversity classification, with its ranking of species, has social and political implications as well as implications for the field of information studies.

Classification in the Wild

The Science and Art of Transparent Decision Making

by Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos, Özgür Şimşek, Marcus Buckmann and Gerd Gigerenzer

ISBN: 9780262045155

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 2, 2021

Rules for building formal models that use fast-and-frugal heuristics, extending the psychological study of classification to the real world of uncertainty.

Information and Intrigue

From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss

by Colin B. Burke

ISBN: 9780262027021

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 9, 2014

An account of Herbert Field's quest for a new way of organizing information and how information systems are produced by ideology as well as technology.