Geoffrey Bowker
Biographic Data
| ID | 226306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Bowker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowker |
| SIGNATURE | BOWKER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Actor‐Network Theory
Actor‐network theory originated in the 1980s as a movement within the sociology of science, centered at the Paris School of Mines. Key developers were Bruno Latour (Latour 1987), Michel Callon, Antoine Hennion, and John Law. It was sharply critical of earlier historical and sociological analyses of science, which had drawn a clear divide between the “inside” of a science (to be analyzed in terms of its adherence or not to a unitary scientific met…
Information Infrastructures for Distributed Collective Practices
Playing at work
This paper analyses the latest management assumptions and theories of playing at work, by examining how management strategies, especially relating to new media, invoke elements of play to create distinct and competing genres of discourse. After a brief overview of the latest management crisis of innovation, we will provide a few definitions of play, followed by a short summary of where play and other competing dialogues converge and overlap at wo…
Invisible Mediators of Action
The Multiple Bodies of the Medical Record
This article argues that the medical record is an important focus for sociological research. In medical work, the modern patient's body that Foucault has so aptly described is produced through embodied, materially heterogeneous work, and the medical record plays a crucial role in this production. It does not simply represent this body's history and geography; it is a central element in the material rewriting of these. Simultaneously, the record f…
The Artisans of Desire
The Multiple Bodies of the Medical Record
This article argues that the medical record is an important focus for sociological research. In medical work, the modern patient's body that Foucault has so aptly described is produced through embodied, materially heterogeneous work, and the medical record plays a crucial role in this production. It does not simply represent this body's history and geography; it is a central element in the material rewriting of these. Simultaneously, the record f…
The Artisans of Desire
The Artisans of Desire
The Multiple Bodies of the Medical Record
This article argues that the medical record is an important focus for sociological research. In medical work, the modern patient's body that Foucault has so aptly described is produced through embodied, materially heterogeneous work, and the medical record plays a crucial role in this production. It does not simply represent this body's history and geography; it is a central element in the material rewriting of these. Simultaneously, the record f…
Invisible Mediators of Action
Playing at work
This paper analyses the latest management assumptions and theories of playing at work, by examining how management strategies, especially relating to new media, invoke elements of play to create distinct and competing genres of discourse. After a brief overview of the latest management crisis of innovation, we will provide a few definitions of play, followed by a short summary of where play and other competing dialogues converge and overlap at wo…
Information Infrastructures for Distributed Collective Practices
Actor‐Network Theory
Actor‐network theory originated in the 1980s as a movement within the sociology of science, centered at the Paris School of Mines. Key developers were Bruno Latour (Latour 1987), Michel Callon, Antoine Hennion, and John Law. It was sharply critical of earlier historical and sociological analyses of science, which had drawn a clear divide between the “inside” of a science (to be analyzed in terms of its adherence or not to a unitary scientific met…
Sociology (5 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Information Systems Theories and Implementation (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)