How does science create knowledge? Epistemic cultures, shaped by affinity, necessity, and
historical coincidence, determine how we know what we know. In this book, Karin Knorr …

Feminist research on technology tends to view technology either as neutral or as
determining, drawing implications for women that are either overoptimistic or …

Gary Lee Downey investigates the body/machine interface in his remarkable ethnography of
computer engineers. Drawing on interviews, observations and personal interaction with …

In this article, we analyze the productive role of aesthetics in organizing technoscientific
work. Specifically, we investigate how aesthetic judgments form and inform code-writing …

This article examines international scientific activities in the context of hierarchical
international relations and how English use is related to inequality in core-periphery …

Managing older software code, often referred to as legacy code, entails a great deal of
complexity, as the longer a software system has been around, the more likely it has been …

The aim of this article is to analyse masculinity and experimental practices among plasma
physicists. The study is based on ethnographic field work with observations and interviews …

Most research in programming and engineering focuses on students' understanding of
functionality as a way to gage their learning, leaving aside aesthetic dimensions. In our work …

The aim of the article is to analyze how gender intersects with mobility, career and private
life among a highly transnational group of researchers, namely plant scientists. The author's …

Information Cosmopolitics explores interaction between nationalist and information sharing
practices in academic communities with a view to understanding the potential impacts of …