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Information infrastructure(s) : boundaries, ecologies, multiplicity / edited by Alessandro Mongili and Giuseppina Pellegrino ; foreword by Geoffrey C. Bowker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowker, Geoffrey C., author of introduction, etc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computer networks--Social aspects.
- Computer networks.
- Computer networks--Software.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (383 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 18, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-7091-9
- OCLC:
- 905864036
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