Studying those who study us : an anthropologist in the world of artificial intelligence / Diana E. Forsythe ; edited, with an introduction, by David J. Hess.
Imprint
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-228) and index.
Contents
Blaming the user in medical informatics : the cultural nature of scientific practice -- Construction of work in artificial intelligence -- Engineering knowledge : the construction of knowledge in artificial intelligence -- Knowing engineers? : a response to Forsythe -- STS (re)constructs anthropology : reply to Fleck -- Artificial intelligence invents itself : collective identity and boundary maintenance in an emergent scientific discipline -- New bottles, old wine : hidden cultural assumptions in a computerized explanation system for migraine sufferers -- Ethics and politics of studying up in technoscience -- Studying those who study us : medical informatics appropriates ethnography -- "It's just a matter of common sense" : ethnography as invisible work -- Disappearing women in the social world of computing -- George and Sandra's daughter, Robert's girl : doing ethnographic research in my parents' field.
