This Is Not a Fish: On the Scale and Politics of Infrastructure Design Studies
Interconnected workplace information technologies (information infrastructures) are distributed across user and system types, agendas, locales, and temporal rhythms. The term infrastructuring describes the design of information infrastructure not as a bounded phase but as a continuous collaborative...
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ftntnutrondheimi:oai:ntnuopen.ntnu.no:11250/2448815 2023-05-15T15:06:21+02:00 This Is Not a Fish: On the Scale and Politics of Infrastructure Design Studies Parmiggiani, Elena 2017 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2448815 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9266-0 eng eng Springer Verlag http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10606-017-9266-0 Norges forskningsråd: 237898 urn:issn:0925-9724 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2448815 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9266-0 cristin:1450622 205-243 26 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 1-2 Journal article Peer reviewed 2017 ftntnutrondheimi https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9266-0 2019-09-17T06:52:10Z Interconnected workplace information technologies (information infrastructures) are distributed across user and system types, agendas, locales, and temporal rhythms. The term infrastructuring describes the design of information infrastructure not as a bounded phase but as a continuous collaborative and inherently political process. From the perspective of ethnographers, however, this conceptualization presents the practical challenge of dealing with the political work involved in infrastructuring and in its study. In this paper, I discuss the challenges of infrastructuring activities for ethnographic research. Based on a self-revealing account of my three-year ethnographic study of an oil company’s project to design a platform for subsea environmental monitoring in the Arctic region, I discuss how my framing of infrastructuring was the result of my process of constructing the ethnographic field in my research. I combined four mechanisms to scale my ethnographic method to investigate infrastructuring across heterogeneous dimensions. Drawing on my practical experience, I discuss how my process of constructing the field let me discover richer possibilities for understanding the politics involved in the study of infrastructuring. acceptedVersion The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9266-0 - archived version available 14 Febuary 2018 Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic NTNU Open Archive (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Arctic Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 26 1-2 205 243 |
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Interconnected workplace information technologies (information infrastructures) are distributed across user and system types, agendas, locales, and temporal rhythms. The term infrastructuring describes the design of information infrastructure not as a bounded phase but as a continuous collaborative and inherently political process. From the perspective of ethnographers, however, this conceptualization presents the practical challenge of dealing with the political work involved in infrastructuring and in its study. In this paper, I discuss the challenges of infrastructuring activities for ethnographic research. Based on a self-revealing account of my three-year ethnographic study of an oil company’s project to design a platform for subsea environmental monitoring in the Arctic region, I discuss how my framing of infrastructuring was the result of my process of constructing the ethnographic field in my research. I combined four mechanisms to scale my ethnographic method to investigate infrastructuring across heterogeneous dimensions. Drawing on my practical experience, I discuss how my process of constructing the field let me discover richer possibilities for understanding the politics involved in the study of infrastructuring. acceptedVersion The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9266-0 - archived version available 14 Febuary 2018 |
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