news & publications

4.19-20.2018

Monitoring, Modeling, and Memory: Knowledge for the Anthropocene Epoch, Climate Changed symposium, MIT

3.15.2018

The Glass Laboratory: Climate Knowledge Infrastructures in the Age of Hyper-transparency, STS Program, Cal Poly

2.15.2018

Cultures of Energy podcast on my work, Center for Energy & Environmental Research in the Human Sciences, Rice University

2.1.2018

Re-integrating Scholarly Infrastructures: the ambiguous role of data sharing platforms, Plantin, Lagoze, and Edwards, Big Data & Society (2018)

9.11-13.2017

Keynote: "Knowledge Infrastructures under Siege," conference on Governing by Prediction? Models, Data, and Algorithms in and for Governance, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris

Links

websites

Knowledge Infrastructures

Web version of the final report of my Knowledge Infrastructures research group (2013). Explores three themes: how knowledge infrastructures are changing; how they reinforce or redistribute authority, influence, and power; and how they can best be conceived and studied.


Evaluating Information and Communications Technology: Perspectives for a Balanced Approach (Christopher A. Lee, Brian S. Williams, and Paul N. Edwards, 2003)

Web version of report to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Reviews recent literature on the social impacts of ICTs. Includes executive summary; annotated bibliography summarizing more than 50 books, articles, and websites; transcripts of 8 interviews with leading experts; and a bibliography of over 290 books, articles, and websites.

Atmospheric General Circulation Modeling: A Participatory History (2000)
Funded by the Sloan Foundation under a consulting arrangement with the Center for the History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics. No longer maintained.