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Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Finding Shoddy -- Old Clothes Odyssey -- The Heap -- Act I: Devil's Dust -- Emergence of an Industry -- Narratives of Transmutation, Myths of Invention -- Devil's Dust Politics -- Material Philosophy and the Shredded Self -- "Devilsdust" and the Protean Nature of Disraeli's Shoddy -- Shoddy as Paradox and Marx's "Excrements of Consumption" -- Act II: Textile Skin -- The Wear of War -- Textile Skin and the "Sinews of War" -- Shoddy and the Body Politic -- Photography and the "Harvest of Death" -- On Shrouds and Shoddy -- Act III: Lively Things -- Miasma and Contagion -- Consolidation of Clothes and Corpses -- Disinfection and Its Discontents -- The Intimate Materiality of the Unknowable -- Liveliness and Formlessness -- Epilogue: Shoddy Renaissance -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: The digitalSTS Community -- Introduction -- Materiality -- Introduction / Forlano, Laura -- Unfolding Digital Materiality: How Engineers Struggle to Shape Tangible and Fluid Objects / Camus, Alexandre / Vinck, Dominique -- The Life and Death of Data / Loukissas, Yanni -- Materiality Methodology, and Some Tricks of the Trade in the Study of Data and Specimens / Ribes, David -- Digital Visualizations for Thinking with the Environment / Calvillo, Nerea -- Gender -- Introduction / Rosner, Daniela K. -- If "Diversity" Is the Answer, What Is the Question? Understanding Diversity Advocacy in Voluntaristic Technology Projects / Dunbar-Hester, Christina -- Feminist STS and Ubiquitous Computing: Investigating the Nature of the "Nature" of Ubicomp / Kerasidou, Xaroula (Charalampia) -- Affect and Emotion in digitalSTS / Stark, Luke -- The Ambiguous Boundaries of Computer Source Code and Some of Its Political Consequences / Couture, Stéphane -- Global Inequalities -- Introduction / Jackson, Steven J. -- Venture Ed: Recycling Hype, Fixing Futures, and the Temporal Order of Edtech / Say Chan, Anita -- Dangerous Networks: Internet Regulations as Racial Border Control in Italy / Hawthorne, Camilla A. -- Social Movements and Digital Technology: A Research Agenda / Ilten, Carla / McInerney, Paul-Brian -- Living in the Broken City: Infrastructural Inequity, Uncertainty, and the Materiality of the Digital in Brazil / Nemer, David / Chirumamilla, Padma -- Sound Bites, Sentiments, and Accents: Digitizing Communicative Labor in the Era of Global Outsourcing / Poster, Winifred R. -- Infrastructure -- Introduction / Vertesi, Janet -- Infrastructural Competence / Sawyer, Steve / Erickson, Ingrid / Jarrahi, Mohammad Hossein -- Getting "There" from the Ever-Changing "Here": Following Digital Directions / Singh, Ranjit / Hesselbein, Chris / Price, Jessica / Lynch, Michael -- Digitized Coral Reefs / Parmiggiani, Elena / Monteiro, Eric -- Of "Working Ontologists" and "High-Quality Human Components": The Politics of Semantic Infrastructures / Allhutter, Doris -- The Energy Walk: Infrastructuring the Imagination / Ross Winthereik, Brit / Maguire, James / Watts, Laura -- Software -- Introduction / DiSalvo, Carl -- From Affordances to Accomplishments: PowerPoint and Excel at NASA / Vertesi, Janet -- Misuser Innovations: The Role of "Misuses" and "Misusers" in Digital Communication Technologies / Latzko-Toth, Guillaume / Söderberg, Johan / Millerand, Florence / Jones, Steve -- Knowing Algorithms / Seaver, Nick -- Keeping Software Present: Software as a Timely Object for STS Studies of the Digital / Leavitt Cohn, Marisa -- Visualizing the Social -- Introduction / Loukissas, Yanni -- Tracing Design Ecologies: Collecting and Visualizing Ephemeral Data as a Method in Design and Technology Studies / Cardoso Llach, Daniel -- Data Sprints: A Collaborative Format in Digital Controversy Mapping / Munk, Anders Kristian / Meunier, Axel / Venturini, Tommaso -- Smart Artifacts Mediating Social Viscosity / Salamanca, Juan -- Actor-Network versus Network Analysis versus Digital Networks: Are We Talking about the Same Networks? / Venturini, Tommaso / Munk, Anders Kristian / Jacomy, Mathieu -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index

Cover -- Contents -- Preface: The digitalSTS Community -- Introduction -- Introduction / Materiality -- Unfolding Digital Materiality: How Engineers Struggle to Shape Tangible and Fluid Objects -- The Life and Death of Data -- Materiality Methodology, and Some Tricks of the Trade in the Study of Data and Specimens -- Digital Visualizations for Thinking with the Environment -- Introduction / Gender -- If "Diversity" Is the Answer, What Is the Question? Understanding Diversity Advocacy in Voluntaristic Technology Projects -- Feminist STS and Ubiquitous Computing: Investigating the Nature of the "Nature" of Ubicomp -- Affect and Emotion in digitalSTS -- The Ambiguous Boundaries of Computer Source Code and Some of Its Political Consequences -- Introduction / Global Inequalities -- Venture Ed: Recycling Hype, Fixing Futures, and the Temporal Order of Edtech -- Dangerous Networks: Internet Regulations as Racial Border Control in Italy -- Social Movements and Digital Technology: A Research Agenda -- Living in the Broken City: Infrastructural Inequity, Uncertainty, and the Materiality of the Digital in Brazil -- Sound Bites, Sentiments, and Accents: Digitizing Communicative Labor in the Era of Global Outsourcing -- Introduction / Infrastructure -- Infrastructural Competence -- Getting "There" from the Ever-Changing "Here": Following Digital Directions -- Digitized Coral Reefs -- Of "Working Ontologists" and "High-Quality Human Components": The Politics of Semantic Infrastructures -- The Energy Walk: Infrastructuring the Imagination -- Introduction / Software -- From Affordances to Accomplishments: PowerPoint and Excel at NASA -- Misuser Innovations: The Role of "Misuses" and "Misusers" in Digital Communication Technologies -- Knowing Algorithms -- Keeping Software Present: Software as a Timely Object for STS Studies of the Digital.