| Title | Building Information Infrastructures for Social Worlds — The Role of Classifications and Standards |
| Publication Type | Book Chapter |
| Authors | Bowker, Geoffrey C., Susan Leigh Star, and Toru Ishida |
| Book Title | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Series Volume | 1519 |
| Pagination | 231-248 |
| Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| ISBN Number | 978-3-540-65475-9 978-3-540-49247-4 |
| Abstract | Through an analysis of information systems in medical communities - notably the development of the International Classification of Diseases and the design of a Nursing Interventions Classification scheme - we argue that community systems designers necessarily build for multiple social worlds simultaneously. So doing, we argue, they make a series of significant social and political choices. We draw some design implications from this observation: notably arguing for a sensitivity to the nature of the work of representing a community to itself. |
| Notes | 'This is a shorter version of Bowker and Star\'s book Sorting Things Out, where they argue that standards, categories and technologies tend to converge in information infrastructures and that politics often are rendered invisible \"buried beneath obscure representation.\"\n - poiril'
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| URL | http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-49247-X_16 |
