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The sociology of science and technology has emphasized opening the black box of technology, a kind of social reverse engineering of the interests and rhetoric inscribed therein. Recent organizational and policy analysis have shown how these black boxes may be opened and closed as circumstances and structural conditions change and rhetorical resources mobilized (see also Yates 1989). Yet here we have a hybrid of these conditions, where the box, if you will, is neither clearly closed nor black. Perhaps the oxymoronic "open black box" (Star 1996) would be a fitting name for this phenomenon, deserving further and urgent investigation in its own right. |
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