Information infrastructure(s) : boundaries, ecologies, multiplicity /

Information infrastructure(s) : boundaries, ecologies, multiplicity /

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Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
©2014
Description:1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations, tables
Language:English
Subject:
Computer networks.
Computer networks -- Social aspects.
Computer networks.
Computer networks -- Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11241966
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Other authors / contributors:Mongili, Alessandro, editor.
Pellegrino, Giuseppina, 1974- editor.
Bowker, Geoffrey C., writer of foreword.
ISBN:9781443870917
1443870919
9781443866552
1443866555
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:"This book marks an important contribution to the fascinating debate on the role that information infrastructures and boundary objects play in contemporary life, bringing to the fore the concern of how cooperation across different groups is enabled, but also constrained, by the material and immaterial objects connecting them. As such, the book itself is situated at the crossroads of various paths and genealogies, all focusing on the problem of the intersection between different levels of scale throughout devices, networks, and society. Information infrastructures allow, facilitate, mediate, saturate and influence people's material and immaterial surroundings. They are often shaped and intertwined with networks of relations and distributed agency, sometimes enabling the existence of such networks, and being, in turn, produced by them. Such infrastructures are not static and immobile in time and space: rather, they require maintenance and repair, which becomes an important aspect of their use. They also define and cross more or less visible boundaries, shape and act as ecologies, and constitute themselves as multiple entities. The various chapters of this edited book question the role of information infrastructures in various settings from both a theoretical and an empirical viewpoint, reflecting the contributors' interests in science and technology studies, organization studies, and information science, as well as mobilities and media studies"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:Print version: Information infrastructure(s). Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014 1443866555
Table of Contents:
  • The boundaries of information infrastructures : an introduction / Alessandro Mongili and Guiseppina Pellegrino
  • I. Designing and Articulating Information Infrastructures. Designers as Users : Blurring Positions and Theories in Creative Practices / Alessandro Mongili
  • Contingency in Infrastructures : Vulnerability, Ductility, Resilience / Giuseppina Pellegrino
  • Infrastructure Innovation in Health Care : The Example of Automatic Drug Dispensing in Germany / Stefan Klein and Stefan Schellhammer
  • II. Information Infrastructures as Ecological Tools. The Design Knowledge Multiple : Deconstructing Balance in an Open Source Video Game Infrastructure / Giacomo Poderi
  • The Laboratory Kit between Infrastructure and Boundary Object / Federico Neresini and Assunta Viteritti
  • Give Us a Protocol and We Will Rise a Lab : The Shaping of Infra-Structuring Objects / Stefano Crabu
  • III. Users, Information Infrastructures and Mobilities. Parasite Users? The Volunteer Mapping of Cycling Infrastructures / Jerome Denis and David Pontille
  • Digital Texts : Reading and Writing Practices at the Digital Turning Point / Gian Paolo Lazzer and Paolo Giardullo
  • "Dispositives" of Flexible Mobility for Travelling Humans and Technologies / Oana Mitrea
  • Between Standard and Situated Uses : Configuring the User in a Technical Call Centre / Simona Isabella
  • IV. On Boundary Objects, and On Multiplicity. Organizations as Boundary Objects : Organizing Business between Research and the Market / Francesco Miele
  • Influence and Multiplicity of Risk Thresholds in Preventative Medicine : The Case of Advanced Maternal Age / Mauro Turrini
  • From Science Parks to Infrastructures / Michela Cozza
  • Convergence : History, Meanings and Implications for the Design of Community Interactions / Giuseppe Lugano.

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