Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

2 results found in STS.

Infrastructural Inversion
A methodological move, articulated by Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, that foregrounds the usually invisible infrastructure underpinning everyday action — categories, standards, procedures, sile…
Residual Category (Residual Categories)
A concept from Susan Leigh Star describing the "other" or "not applicable" categories in classification systems — the bucket where anything that does not fit predefined types gets placed. Individuals …