Talk:Susan Leigh Star

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I changed her name on her page to the full Susan Leigh Star, not Susan "Leigh" Star. All her books and former academic work are published simply as "Susan Leigh Star" not Susan Star or Susan "Leigh" Star. I think that any emphasis on the "Leigh" is because this is what friends called her. I wonder how to update the title page name and url. I see that this page is redirecting from "Susan Leigh Star" to "Susan Star" but don't see any indication of a reason for this. Thanks Shameran81 (talk) 00:29, 29 August 2012 (UTC)


 * According to this book, she was given the name Susan Leigh at birth. However, the name "Star" is one she choose herself (Her original sirname was Kippax) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simulo (talk • contribs) 21:52, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Works
Hi all. I'm the other iSchool student signed up to work on this article. I was thinking of specifically addressing Star's work with information infrastructure, as that seems to be a huge part of her body of work. I was going to use both the article we had to read for class (The Ethnography of Infrastructure) and the information found in her interview with Mark Zachry to do this. I may add this to the section on her Academic Work, or if it proves to be too much, I may create a subsection for it. Sound okay? I know someone else has already done a lot of work on her Academic Work section, so I'm definitely open to suggestions/collaboration. Okayhailey (talk) 18:34, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi, that sounds ok with me. I'm focusing on her article regarding boundary theory "Institutional Ecology, 'Translations' and Boundary Objects...." . So we shouldn't overlap to much. hope that is ok with everyone. LS1001 (talk) 22:57, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Cool. I added a bit about information infrastructure, and am going to move on to fleshing out some other aspects of her Academic work. Some of the obituary articles written about her give a lot of insight into how and why her academic interests developed as they did, and I think this is worthwhile to include.Okayhailey (talk) 02:00, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

That sounds like a good plan. It would be very interesting to learn more about how Star's academic interests developed. I added a small section on boundary objects and a few more titles to the "works" section, please feel free to expand/edit it if you find something relevant. LS1001 (talk) 15:51, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Added a few more titles to the works list. I'm thinking about adding a new section to briefly describe some of her more major works and/or contributions to the field. Good idea? EleanorDocherty (talk) 13:43, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

I was thinking of doing something similar in terms of adding a more extensive bibliography of her work. Perhaps we could each pick a few texts and elaborate on those so we are not repeating information? Let me know if that would be ok with you. LS1001 (talk) 14:01, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

I've decided to work more on the biography stuff (see below) so if you want to elaborate on some of her texts that would be perfect. Any you feel like doing, I'll stick to the biography so we're not stepping on each others toes. EleanorDocherty (talk) 14:24, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Sounds great! Thank you. LS1001 (talk) 20:52, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

There is a but in "In the article “Institutional Ecology, 'Translations' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39”, Star and her co-author Griesemer introduce the concept of boundary objects for the first time." - I would omit "for the first time" because Star was working on another article, "The Structure of Ill-Structured Solutions. Boundary Objects and Heterogeneous Distributed Problem Solving" that got discussed on a 1988 AI workshop organzized by Les Gasser. Both papers deserve credit, but the AI text seems to be at least as important. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diskurshase (talk • contribs) 15:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Biography
In researching some of her works I came across a fair bit of information that could be used for the biography section. Thought I would start there instead. EleanorDocherty (talk) 13:34, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Did you know potential
Good job expanding the article. Your work may be eligible for a Did You Know front page exposure (see WP:DYK and T:TDYK), but you'll need to act quickly to capitalize on that. On Oct 15th you've expanded the article from 121 words to 402 words, that's a 3x increase. Did you know requires a 5x increase within 5 days, so you've two days to add more to the article. If you do so, it will be read by thousands of people within few hours! Let me know if you have any further questions, and I can help you with the nomination. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 21:29, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment
This article is the subject of an educational assignment at University of Toronto supported by WikiProject Wikipedia and the Wikipedia Ambassador Program&#32;during the 2011 Fall term. Further details are available on the course page.

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