These Things Called Systems: Collective Imaginings and Infrastructural Software

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 365-387

  Mackenzie, Adrian ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Imagination; Infrastructure; Locality; Software

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242362108     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/03063127030333003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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