{"product_id":"digital-oil-isbn-9780262544672","title":"Digital Oil","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow is digitalization of the offshore oil industry fundamentally changing how we understand work and ways of knowing?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDigitalization sits at the forefront of public and academic conversation today, calling into question how we work and how we know. In \u003ci\u003eDigital Oil\u003c\/i\u003e, Eric Monteiro uses the Norwegian offshore oil and gas industry as a lens to investigate the effects of digitalization on embodied labor, and in doing so shows how our use of new digital technology transforms work and knowing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFor years, roughnecks have performed the dangerous and unwieldy work of extracting the oil that lies three miles below the seabed along the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Today, the Norwegian oil industry is largely digital, operated by sensors and driven by data. Digital representations of physical processes inform work practices and decision-making with remotely operated, unmanned deep-sea facilities. Drawing on two decades of in-depth interviews, observations, news clips, and studies of this industry, Eric Monteiro dismantles the divide between the virtual and the physical in \u003ci\u003eDigital Oil\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhat is gained or lost when objects and processes become algorithmic phenomena with the digital inferred from the physical? How can data-driven work practices and operational decision-making approximate qualitative interpretation, professional judgement, and evaluation? How are emergent digital platforms and infrastructures, as machineries of knowing, enabling digitalization? In answering these questions Monteiro offers a novel analysis of digitalization as an effort to press the limits of quantification of the qualitative.Preface vii\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements ix\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003eI Setting\u003cbr\u003e2 Context 25\u003cbr\u003e3 Apparatus 41\u003cbr\u003eII Cases\u003cbr\u003e4 Data 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewritten with Marius Mikalsen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Uncertainty 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewritten with Marius Mikalsen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Knowing 113\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewritten with Thomas Østerlie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 Politics 141\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewritten with Elena Parmiggiani\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 Conclusion 169\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: A Note on Method 179\u003cbr\u003eNotes 183\u003cbr\u003eReferences 189\u003cbr\u003eIndex 211“This \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e is a master class in how historically and ethnographically informed analysis can deepen our understanding of the extractive operations and the onto-epistemic limits of datafication.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Lucy Suchman, Professor Emerita, Lancaster University UK; author of \u003ci\u003eHuman-Machine Reconfigurations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Empirically fresh and theoretically astute, \u003ci\u003eDigital Oil\u003c\/i\u003e offers the perfect antidote to big data hype and handwringing: a subsurface tour of how the virtual is made real (and vice versa).”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Steven Jackson, Professor of Information Science and Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University\u003c\/b\u003eEric Monteiro is Professor of Information Systems at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on the process of digitalization in public and corporate organizations and in large-scale infrastructural projects.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304951730405,"sku":"NP9780262544672","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544672.jpg?v=1767725125","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/digital-oil-isbn-9780262544672","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}