WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 2 finely-ground lenses of the sociology of work as developed by Anselm Strauss and refined by Leigh Star (1991:265) who wrote: 001. Publication Committee Meeting "Work is the link between the visible and the invisible." I focus 1:00 to 3:00 pm on three forms anticipation work which are often, though not Crowne Plaza: Savoy always, invisibled/deleted. First is abduction, the feedback loopings from empirical elements to conceptualizations of them 002. 4S Council Meeting through which we produce and perform anticipation, tracing 3:00 to 6:00 pm some of its roots in pragmatist philosophy and how guessing is Crowne Plaza: Savoy work. I then extend the process(es) of simplification as analyzed by Leigh Star (1983) vis-a-vis scientific work as a key process of 003. Welcome and Opening Remarks anticipation in largely non-scientific spaces and places. I discuss 6:15 to 6:30 pm how various kinds of work "disappear" through simplifying Crowne Plaza: Grand Ballroom - East strategies, noting the loss of complexities, and the shifting An overview of 4S conference 2011. politics of responsibility for doing anticipatory labor. Last, I Chair: touch on hope, attempting to specify how it threads itself into possible futures in relation to anticipation as fuel, as energy Roli Varma, University of New Mexico source, as drive, as process, as product. In conclusion, I discuss 004. Opening Plenary: The Intellectual Legacies of Susan Leigh the shifting politics of responsibility for doing anticipatory labor, Star especially in relation to its visibility. Who does it? Under what 6:30 to 7:30 pm conditions? With what kinds of recognition or invisibling? Why Crowne Plaza: Grand Ballroom - East might it matter when anticipatory labor is commonly invisible? Susan Leigh Star (1954–2010) Mapping the Body across Diverse Information Systems: Shadow Bodies and They Make Us Human. Ellen Balka, Participants: Simon Fraser University; Susan Leigh Star, Santa Clara Sand in the Grain of the World: Working the Boundaries. University Geoffrey Bowker, Santa Clara University In this talk, I introduce the term “shadow bodies” (Star & Balka, Susan Leigh Star's work always revolved around people and 2009), a concept Leigh Star and I were working on at the time of processes that didn't quite fit traditional classifications, her death. Using ski area injuries as a starting point, I organizational charts and understandings of the world. She demonstrate how shadow bodies are created as notions of health deployed her intellectual lucidity to explore silence and suffering and illness are negotiated across multiple jurisdictions (such as rather than the shibboleths of certainty. The world for her was the ski patrol, ambulance service, local clinic), information needs messy, interesting and tractable in ways ways that others had not (e.g., those of a provincial safety officer, who receives seen. I discuss three themes of her work: boundary objects; information if an injury involves a ski lift) and information invisible work and other ways of knowing - in each case weaving systems, with each jurisdictional boundary demarking a differing the personal with the professional and the intellectual. In view of the body – “shadow bodies” (Star & Balka, 2009). I then conclusion, I theorize the ability of her work to cross multiple take up Leigh’s broader line of inquiry to demonstrate how these disciplinary boundaries and to reach so many hearts. infrastructure shadows permeate our bodies in action, interaction, Lost in Translation: Problems of Large Scale Data Sets. and history, where these shadows take the form of absences and Lawrence Busch, Michigan State University & Lancaster presences encoded by all types of information technology - University which are not, themselves, yet considered institutionally. As the body of shadows accumulate (in the form of blogs, electronic As Leigh Star began to argue 30 years ago, technoscientific traces of many sorts, the aggregation of information about research always involves simplification and standardization. In individuals), little in the way of moral or sentimental order recent years, the collection and analysis of large scale data sets in guides their proliferation, with documents and traces following, fields as diverse as marketing, physics, sociology, molecular in ever-thickening ways, nearly every domain of life (e.g., book- biology and logistics has become the norm. These are often buying, health, where one lives, how standard one may be or not convenience samples – people who bought a certain product, be). I end by suggesting that as an aggregate social form, these families that are part of a given government program, particles shadows of the self are under-theorized, and, in the spirit of that pass through a certain target, books that Google has scanned, Leigh’s inquiry, that we now turn our focus to consideration of proteins from a given plant. They are often analyzed by data the about the existential and political ways of life engendered by mining techniques, sifting through vast quantities of data to find the volume and entanglement of multiple infrastructures. the proverbial needle in the haystack. Moreover, these data are often used as the basis for public and private policy and action. A Chair: variety of ‘translations’ produce simplification/standardization Adele E. Clarke, University of California, San Francisco including but not limited to (1) lossiness (where aggregation 005. Reception leads to irreversible loss of detail), (2) disproportionality (extreme outliers have an impact on variables of interest), (3) 7:30 to 9:00 pm distancing of the observer from the phenomenon of interest so as Crowne Plaza: Grand Ballroom Assembly Area to make invisible subtle differences, (4) amplification of that which can be calculated and standardized, even as other aspects of phenomena are reduced, (5) assuming that underlying relations hold uniformly across time and space as opposed to being THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 3 situated, (6) displacement of hermeneutic questions as the data appear to "speak for themselves," and (7) shifts in the depiction 006. Critical Perspectives on "Personal" Engagements with of risk and consequent shifts in behavior. At the same time, large "Public" Health Discourses scale suggests completeness, crowding out other interpretations; 8:30 to 10:00 am hence, understanding their limits should be of the utmost Crowne Plaza: Fuldheim concern. This multi-disciplinary panel explores diverse ways in which the values Anticipation as Work: Abduction, Simplification, Hope. Adele and imperatives of "public" discourses on healthy living, obesity and E. Clarke, University of California, San Francisco cancer in Canada and Europe interact with "personal" healthcare identities, This paper is a meditation on some overlapping, nonfungible and understandings and experiences. Given the contemporary neo-liberal messy work processes of anticipating. I draw especially on the emphasis on individual responsibility, consumer empowerment, and patient involvement in healthcare, how are these values both reproduced and what they learn to others. We focus, in particular, on those whose reconfigured in differing contexts? How do public health discourses shape accounts include attempts to enlist others into the project of subjective identities and experiences of "good" healthcare healthy aging. Using Latour’s (2005) distinction between citizens/consumers, and how do citizens/consumers take up, reconstruct, information mediators and intermediaries, we discuss the health- and possibly resist these discourses? Our critical engagement with these informing work of volunteer health agents who pass along, with questions includes analyzing the epistemic and ideological implications of little translation, the message of the state, and that of health commonplace metaphors that people use to describe their understandings of evangelists who try to save others with their version of the "good healthy eating; tracing the complex information-seeking and news" about healthy living. info(r)mediation practices of older citizens on the topic of healthy living; “Obesity is Definitely a Problem!”: Assembling Evidence and examining expert discourses and interventions in obese bodies not simply Normalizing Bodies. Ulrike Felt, University of Vienna; Kay as efforts to normalize body weight, but as multilevel engagements in re- Felder, Departement of Social Studies of Science at standardizing and re-normalizing bodies and lives; interrogating how standard breast-cancer narratives interact with public institutional University of Vienna; Theresa Oehler, University of Vienna; discourses of cancer to complicate notions of objectivity and subjectivity; Michael Penkler, Department of Social Studies of Science, and exploring how certain "patient involvement" discourses enlist women University of Vienna with cancer in health care work, with implications for care equity. In the past decade, obesity as a public health concern has moved Together, our diverse perspectives offer a multi-faceted view of ways in high on the political agenda. While there seems consensus when which prevalent public discourses of "good" healthcare citizenship both it comes to defining obesity and rising obesity rates as medical shape and are re-shaped by people’s "personal" healthcare identities, and societal problems, a closer analysis of diverse expert knowledges and practices. discourses on obesity shows substantive variations in the Participants: construction of what obesity is and how