Martha Lampland is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of The Object of Labor and coeditor of Altering States. Susan Leigh Star is Research Professor, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University. She is the author of books including Sorting Things Out and editor of The Cultures of Computing.

"Standards and Their Stories is an important, well-written, and extraordinarily provocative examination of a part of the world usually hidden from any sort of public view. The authors show how much of what we take for granted is the result of negotiation, compromise, and occasionally coercion. They do so by inventing a suite of new and innovative research methods. As a result, this book is likely to become not only 'the standard' for studies of this sort but also the starting point for new ways of investigating sociotechnical processes."—Lawrence Busch, Michigan State University

Martha Lampland is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of The Object of Labor and coeditor of Altering States. Susan Leigh Star is Research Professor, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University. She is the author of books including Sorting Things Out and editor of The Cultures of Computing.

"Standards and Their Stories is an important, well-written, and extraordinarily provocative examination of a part of the world usually hidden from any sort of public view. The authors show how much of what we take for granted is the result of negotiation, compromise, and occasionally coercion. They do so by inventing a suite of new and innovative research methods. As a result, this book is likely to become not only 'the standard' for studies of this sort but also the starting point for new ways of investigating sociotechnical processes."—Lawrence Busch, Michigan State University

Martha Lampland is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of The Object of Labor and coeditor of Altering States. Susan Leigh Star is Research Professor, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University. She is the author of books including Sorting Things Out and editor of The Cultures of Computing.

"Standards and Their Stories is an important, well-written, and extraordinarily provocative examination of a part of the world usually hidden from any sort of public view. The authors show how much of what we take for granted is the result of negotiation, compromise, and occasionally coercion. They do so by inventing a suite of new and innovative research methods. As a result, this book is likely to become not only 'the standard' for studies of this sort but also the starting point for new ways of investigating sociotechnical processes."—Lawrence Busch, Michigan State University