#STS Friends:
What's the best introduction to your field or the book you would recommend to someone uninitiated (or, perhaps if it exists, both)?
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Replying to @generativist
Though it isn't an intro to the field as a whole, I: (a) love it so much I quote it in almost every talk I give, and (b) think it captures the spirit of STS so well that it makes you want to learn more. So: "Pilgrim's Progress" in Beamtimes and Lifetimes by Sharon Traweek 1/2
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Replying to @dataandme @generativist
I excerpted it from the book here - apologies for the fact that I accidentally highlighted the first couple pages: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4w3hweu6r1qmsnv/traweek_1988_pilgrims_progress.pdf?dl=0 … 2/2
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Replying to @dataandme
Every day I get a little bit closer to, "Mara, let's create our own, open Good Reads..."
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Replying to @generativist
I would be super down!! I basically stopped doing GR when I started using twitter as a human (I'm convinced I have a fixed number of words on the internet). And my whole GR over alternatives (e.g. booklikes, which I also have) was that my friends were there / an audience existed!
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Replying to @dataandme @generativist
Also, the weird, faux HTML they have on Goodreads was mind-bendingly annoying! Like, I ended up always making images for the exact 400px width, and then adding 10px of white to top and bottom just bc the layout was the worst…so that got time-consuming
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Replying to @dataandme
And the amazon fuel thing :(
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Replying to @generativist
Yeah! Ironically, someone wrote a book about that whole saga — GR is very much its own social network, and a fascinating one at that — and they actually took it down from goodreads! Also, they can just delete posts w/ no notification, which, like, WTF?!
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Wait really?! I didn’t know that!
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Replying to @generativist
YES!! So, it's possible they've deleted reviews I've written, but I don't know because I don't, umm, run around checking on them, I guess!
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