Showing papers by "Susan Leigh Star published in 2007"

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

Abstract: Residual categories are those which cannot be formally represented within a given classification system We examine the forms that residuality takes within our information systems today, and explore some silences which form around those inhabiting particular residual categories We argue that there is significant ethical and political work to be done in exploring residuality