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Bibliography:

Almklov, P. G. (2008). Standardized data and singular situations. Social Studies of Science, 38(6), 873-897.

Barry, Andrew (2001). Political machines : Governing a technological society. London; New York: Athlone Press.

Bijker, W. E. (1992). Shaping technology, building society. Studies in sociotechnical change. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Bowker, G. C. & P. N. Edwards. (2011). Standards. MIT Press.

Bowker, G. C. & Star, S. L. (1999). Sorting things out: Classification and its consequences. In MIT press.

Carroll, P. (2006). Science, culture, and modern state formation. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Carroll, P. (forthcoming). Ontologies of the Technoscientific State: Heterogeneous Assembly, Obligatory Passage Point, and Discursive Punctualization. Social Studies of Science

Edwards, P. N. (2010).A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming. MIT Press.

Eyal, G. (2011). The Autism Matrix. Polity.

Gopakumar, G. (2011). Transforming Urban Water Supplies in India: The Role of Reform and Partnerships in Globalization (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series).

Hanseth, Monteiro, & Hatling (1996). Developing information infrastructure: The tension between standardization and flexibility. Science, Technology & Human Values, 21(4), 407-326.

Hayles, N. K. (2002). Writing machines . Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press.

Hickman, L. A. (1990). Technology as a human affair. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Higgins, A. (2007). ‘Code talk’ in soft work. Ethnography, 8(4), 467-484.

Hughes, T. P. (2004). Human-Built world. How to think about technology and culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Latour, B. (1991). Technology is society made durable. In J. Law (Ed.), A sociology of monsters: Essays on power, technology and domination (J. Law, Ed.). (pp. 103-31). London/New York: Routledge.

Latour, B., Bijker, W., & Law, J. (1992). Where are the missing masses? The sociology of a few mundane artifacts. In Shaping technology, building society. Studies in sociotechnical change. (pp. 225-58). MIT Press.

Lethbridge, T. C., Sim, S. E., & Singer, J. (2005). Studying software engineers: Data collection techniques for software field studies. Empirical Software Engineering, 10(3), 311-341.

Luhmann, N. (1990). Technology, environment and social risk: A systems perspective. Organization & Environment, 4(3), 223.

Mackenzie, A. (2003). These things called systems: Collective imaginings and infrastructural software. Social Studies of Science, 33(3), 365-387.

Mackenzie, A. (2005). The performativity of code: Software and cultures of circulation. Theory, Culture & Society, 22(1), 71-92.

MacKenzie & Monk (2004). From cards to code: How extreme programming re-embodies programming as a collective practice. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, (13), 91-117.

Manovich, L. (1999). Database as symbolic form. Convergence: The International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies.

Misa, T. (1988). How machines make history, and how historians (and others) help them to do so. Science, Technology, & Human Values.

Passoth, J-H & N.J. Rowland. (2010). Actor-Network State. International Sociology, 25(6), 818-841.

Pinch, T. (1993). Testing-One, two, three… Testing!”: Toward a sociology of testing. Science, Technology & Human Values, 18(1), 25.

Rowland, N.J. & T. Gieryn. (2007). Transfer Troubles. In Living in a Material World. MIT Press.

Star, S. L. (1995). The cultures of computing. Oxford: Blackwell Publisher.

Star, S. L. (1999). The ethnography of infrastructure. American Behavioral Scientist, 43(3), 377.

Winner, L. (1977). Autonomous technology : Technics-Out-Of-Control as a theme in political thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Winner, L. (1986). The whale and the reactor : A search for limits in an age of high technology. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr.

Woolgar, S. (1991). The turn to technolgy in social studies of science. Science, Technology & Human Values, 16(3), 368–378.

Woolgar, S. (2002). Virtual society? Technology, cyberbole, reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.