Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure: Design and Access for Large Information Spaces

Information Systems Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 111-134

  Star, Susan Leigh ^a   Ruhleder, Karen ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Collaboratory; Ethnography; Infrastructure; Internet; Organizational Computing; Participatory Design; Scientific Computing

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

COLLABORATORIES; ETHNOGRAPHY; INFRASTRUCTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL COMPUTING; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN;

HARDWARE;

EID: 0030491435     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.7.1.111     Document Type: Article

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