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Science friction: Data, metadata, and collaboration by Edwards, Paul N., Mayernik, Matthew S., Batcheller, Archer L., Bowker, Geoffrey C., Borgman, Christine L.

“…When scientists from two or more disciplines work together on related problems, they often face what we call ' science friction'. As science becomes more…”
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Re-integrating scholarly infrastructure: The ambiguous role of data sharing platforms by Plantin, Jean-Christophe, Lagoze, Carl, Edwards, Paul N

“…Web-based platforms play an increasingly important role in managing and sharing research data of all types and sizes. This article presents a case study of the…”
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Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook by Plantin, Jean-Christophe, Lagoze, Carl, Edwards, Paul N, Sandvig, Christian

“…Two theoretical approaches have recently emerged to characterize new digital objects of study in the media landscape: infrastructure studies and platform…”
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History and the Technopolitics of Identity: The Case of Apartheid South Africa by Edwards, Paul N., Hecht, Gabrielle

“…This article explores the history of nuclear systems and computers in apartheid South Africa, considering these systems - and apartheid more generally - as…”
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AHR Conversation: Historical Perspectives on the Circulation of Information by Edwards, Paul N., Gitelman, Lisa, Hecht, Gabrielle, Johns, Adrian, Larkin, Brian, Safier, Neil

“…A panel discussion regarding the historical perspective on the circulation of information, featuring Lisa Gitelman, Neil Safier, and Paul N. Edwards, among…”
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Producing “one vast index”: Google Book Search as an algorithmic system by Chalmers, Melissa K, Edwards, Paul N

“…In 2004, Google embarked on a massive book digitization project. Forty library partners and billions of scanned pages later, Google Book Search has provided…”
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The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl by Kuchinskaya, Olga

“…Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in…”
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History of climate modeling by Edwards, Paul N.

“…The history of climate modeling begins with conceptual models, followed in the 19th century by mathematical models of energy balance and radiative transfer, as…”
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Institutions, Infrastructures, and Innovation by Edwards, Paul N., King, John Leslie

“…Innovators, institutions, and infrastructures are hidden but essential to innovation ecologies that produced important breakthroughs. This article provides…”
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Knowledge infrastructures for the Anthropocene by Edwards, Paul N

“…The technosphere metabolizes not only energy and materials, but information and knowledge as well. This article first examines the history of knowledge about…”
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"A Vast Machine": Standards as Social Technology by Edwards, Paul N.

“…Maintaining consistency in the huge, constantly changing meteorological data network is the work of standards. Standards are socially constructed tools--they…”
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Digitalization and the Anthropocene by Creutzig, Felix, Acemoglu, Daron, Bai, Xuemei, Edwards, Paul N, Hintz, Marie Josefine, Kaack, Lynn H, Kilkis, Siir, Kunkel, Stefanie, Luers, Amy, Milojevic-Dupont, Nikola, Rejeski, Dave, Renn, Jürgen, Rolnick, David, Rosol, Christoph, Russ, Daniela, Turnbull, Thomas, Verdolini, Elena, Wagner, Felix, Wilson, Charlie, Zekar, Aicha, Zumwald, Marius

“…Great claims have been made about the benefits of dematerialization in a digital service economy. However, digitalization has historically increased…”
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Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC by Asayama, Shinichiro, De Pryck, Kari, Beck, Silke, Cointe, Béatrice, Edwards, Paul N., Guillemot, Hélène, Gustafsson, Karin M., Hartz, Friederike, Hughes, Hannah, Lahn, Bård, Leclerc, Olivier, Lidskog, Rolf, Livingston, Jasmine E., Lorenzoni, Irene, MacDonald, Joanna Petrasek, Mahony, Martin, Miguel, Jean Carlos Hochsprung, Monteiro, Marko, O’Reilly, Jessica, Pearce, Warren, Petersen, Arthur, Siebenhüner, Bernd, Skodvin, Tora, Standring, Adam, Sundqvist, Göran, Taddei, Renzo, van Bavel, Bianca, Vardy, Mark, Yamineva, Yulia, Hulme, Mike

“…The IPCC has been successful at building its scientific authority, but it will require institutional reform for staying relevant to new and changing political…”
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Introduction: An Agenda for Infrastructure Studies by Edwards, Paul, Bowker, Geoffrey, Jackson, Steven, Williams, Robin

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Entangled histories: Climate science and nuclear weapons research by Edwards, Paul N.

“…Climate science and nuclear weapons testing have a long and surprisingly intimate relationship. The global networks that monitored the Fukushima radiation…”
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Meteorology as Infrastructural Globalism by Edwards, Paul N.

“…This chapter explores the history of a global governance institution, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), from its nineteenth‐century origins through…”
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An Archive for the Future: Paul N. Edwards on Technology, Historiography, Self, and World by Monea, Alexander, Edwards, Paul N

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Guest Editors' Introduction: Climate Change - Science and Software by Easterbrook, Steve M., Edwards, Paul N., Balaji, Venkatramani, Budich, Reinhard

“…Climate change is likely to be one of the defining global issues of the 21st century. The past decade-the hottest in recorded history-has witnessed countries…”
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Revolutionary Secrets: Technology’s Role in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement by Garrett, R. Kelly, Edwards, Paul N.

“…In the late 1980s, Operation Vula brought exiled African National Congress (ANC) leaders and military capacity into South Africa despite legal and military…”
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Is climate change ungovernable? by Edwards, Paul N

“…Climate governance spans multiple levels of socio-political organisation, from global institutions to local governments and non-governmental entities…”
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