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Power of Position
Classification and the Biodiversity Sciences
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
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
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.
Paper Machines
About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929
ISBN: 9780262015899
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 19, 2011
Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.
Power of Position
Classification and the Biodiversity Sciences
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
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
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.
Paper Machines
About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929
ISBN: 9780262015899
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 19, 2011
Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.