… In A Vast Machine Paul Edwards has news for these skeptics: without models, there are no
… Edwards offers an engaging and innovative history of how scientists learned to understand …

The Closed World offers a radically new alternative to the canonical histories of computers
and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we …

The argument of this essay is that infrastructures simultaneously shape and are shaped by—in
other words, co-construct—the condition of modernity. By linking macro, meso, and micro …

Two theoretical approaches have recently emerged to characterize new digital objects of
study in the media landscape: infrastructure studies and platform studies. Despite their …

Global climate change is among today's most visible and controversial areas of science-based
policy. By almost any measure—number of researchers, size of budgets, attention from …

When scientists from two or more disciplines work together on related problems, they often
face what we call ‘science friction’. As science becomes more data-driven, collaborative, and …

… The National Science Foundation supported some of Paul Edwards's work on this book …
Additional support for Edwards's research came from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under a …

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Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act …

The history of climate modeling begins with conceptual models, followed in the 19th century
by mathematical models of energy balance and radiative transfer, as well as simple analog …

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