Snapshot from Prezi lecture about interpretative flexibility, black-boxing, and closure/consensus.
Image from class today
Installing (Social) Order
Installing (Social) Order is a blog on the sociology of infrastructure, exploring the sociotechnical nerves of contemporary society.
Installing (Social) Order 
Well, I like prezi too. The packing tape and open seams; I thought the box was also good to be analytical with, and the students were..Now, the closure concept has received quite a lot of support, even though it might be a bit dated, it still works for an introductory STS course. I do think the shift to "closing" as the analytical puzzle to open-up (ironic, no!) is more active and appreciably an improvement on the notion of "final" closure, or highly-stable conceptualization of machines and facts.
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