Enacting silence: Residual categories as a challenge for ethics, information systems, and communication

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 273-280

  Star, Susan Leigh ^a   Bowker, Goffrey C ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic illness; Classification; Information systems; Invisible work; Lived experience; Residual categories; Silence

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC ILLNESS; INVISIBLE WORK; LIVED EXPERIENCE; RESIDUAL CATEGORIES; SILENCE;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 39549106240     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-007-9141-7     Document Type: Article

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