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Recent Publications:
Ribes D, Hoffman A, Slota S, Bowker GC (2019 - Online First) The Logic of Domains. Social Studies of Science (SSS).
Ribes D (2018 - Online First) STS, Meet Data Science, Once Again. Science, Technology and Human Values (ST&HV).
Ribes D. 2019. How I Learned What a Domain Was. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 3, No. CSCW, Article 38, November 2019. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 12 pages.
Inman S, and Ribes D (2019) "Beautiful Seams": Strategic Revelations and Concealments. Proceedings of CHI 2019.
Vertesi J and Ribes D (eds. 2019) digitalSTS: A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies. NJ: Princeton University Press.
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These two papers explicitly outline the kernel as a theory/method package:
Ribes D and Polk JB (2015) Organizing for Ontological Change: The Kernel of a Research Infrastructure. Social Studies of Science 45(2): 214-241.
Ribes D. (2014). The Kernel of a Research Infrastructure. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). ACM, 574-587.
This paper outlines the problematization that led to the kernel (i.e., not ignoring objects of investigation in studies of infrastrucutre, and not only focusing on data):
Ribes, D. and J. B. Polk (2012). Historical Ontology and Infrastructure. Proceedings of the 2012 iConference. Toronto, CA, ACM: 252-264.
No mention of the kernel, but in retrospect it led up to those ideas:
Ribes, David, and S. J. Jackson. 2013. Data Bite Man: The Work of Sustaining a Long-Term Study. In "Raw Data" is an Oxymoron, edited by L. Gitelman. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press: 147-166.
