Person

Star, Susan Leigh, and Anselm Strauss

Sociologists of ecologies of knowledge—how information infrastructures connect actors across institutional silos.

Why this matters

Star and Strauss map how meaning travels through infrastructures—not everyone shares the same map.

Works

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Layers of Silence, Arenas of Voice: The Ecology of Visible and Invisible Work.

Star, Susan Leigh, and Anselm Strauss. "Layers of Silence, Arenas of Voice: The Ecology of Visible and Invisible Work." *Social Problems* 46, no. 3 (1999): 301–24.

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