Thinking infrastructures / edited by Martin Kornberger, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Julia Elyachar, Andrea Mennicken, Peter Miller, Joanne Randa Nucho, and Neil Pollock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kornberger, Martin, 1974- editor.

Bowker, Geoffrey C., editor.

Elyachar, Julia, 1961- editor.

Mennicken, Andrea, editor.

Miller, Peter, editor.

Nucho, Joanne Randa, editor.

Pollock, Neil, editor.

Series:

Research in the sociology of organizations ; 0733-558X v. 17.

Research in the sociology of organizations, 0733-558X ; volume 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge management.

Decision making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (62 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.

Summary:

This volume introduces the notion of Thinking Infrastructures to explore a broad range of phenomena that structure attention, shape decision-making, and guide cognition: Thinking Infrastructures configure entities (via tracing, tagging), organise knowledge (via search engines), sort things out (via rankings and ratings), govern markets (via calculative practices, including algorithms), and configure preferences (via valuations such as recommender systems). Thus, Thinking Infrastructures, we collectively claim in this volume, inform and shape distributed and embodied cognition, including collective reasoning, structuring of attention and orchestration of decision-making.

Contents:

Prelims

Introduction to thinking infrastructures

Part I: Valuing

Chapter 1 Assembling calculative infrastructures

Chapter 2 A calculative infrastructure in the making: the emergence of a multi-layered complex for governing healthcare

Chapter 3 Calculative infrastructure for hospitals: governing medical practices and health expenditures through a pricing payment system

Chapter 4 Prospective sensemaking and thinking infrastructures in a large-scale humanitarian crisis

Part II: Tracing

Chapter 5 Infrastructures of traceability

Chapter 6 Capitalization by certification: creating information-based assets through the establishment of an identification infrastructure

Chapter 7 Indexal thinking - reconfiguring global topologies for market-based intervention

Chapter 8 Performing apparatus: infrastructures of valuation in hospitality

Part III: Governing markets

Chapter 9 Thinking transparency in European securitization: repurposing the market's information infrastructures

Chapter 10 Thinking market infrastructure: barcode scanning in the us grocery retail sector, 1967-2010

Chapter 11 Thinking infrastructure and the organization of markets: the creation of a legal market for cannabis in Colorado

Chapter 12 Smart grids and smart markets: the promises and politics of intelligent infrastructures

Chapter 13 From matchmaking to boundary making: thinking infrastructures and decentring digital platforms in the sharing economy

Part IV: Infrastructuring society

Chapter 14 Social media and the infrastructuring of sociality

Chapter 15 A communication perspective on the fabric of thinking infrastructure: the case of social media analytics

Chapter 16 Infrastructuring as bricolage: thinking like a contemporary knowledge worker

Chapter 17 Designing infrastructure for the poor: transactions within unstable ecologies

Chapter 18 Infrastructuration: on habits, norms and routines as elements of infrastructure

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9781787695597

178769559X

9781787695573

1787695573