David is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. He is a sociologist of science and technology who focuses on the development and sustainability of research infrastructures. His methods are ethnographic, archival-historical and comparative.
last update: September 2018
Articles published on IXD&A:
• ‘Entangled inversions: Actor/analyst symmetry in the ethnography of infrastructure’, N. 38, 2018, pp. 124 – 139, abstract, download, (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-038-007), Google Scholar
"In this paper we argue that the normal work of practitioners engaged in the design and use of information systems involves socio-technical reflections on these systems that are essentially symmetrical..."
"In this paper we argue that the normal work of practitioners engaged in the design and use of information systems involves socio-technical reflections on these systems that are essentially symmetrical..."
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