Understanding infrastructure: History, heuristics, and cyberinfrastructure policy

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Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Jackson, Steven J ^a   Edwards, Paul N ^a,b   Bowker, Geoffrey C ^c   Knobel, Cory P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b School of Information

^c SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34547291736     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v12i6.1904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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1. Paul N. Edwards, Steven J. Jackson, Geoffrey C. Bowker, and Cory P. Knobel, Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and Design. (Ann Arbor: DeepBlue, 2007), http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/49353.
2. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant #0630263.
3. Thomas P. Hughes, Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983).
4. We refer here to a loose-knit group of historians and sociologists from the 1980s through present who have studied a variety of large technical systems, ranging from telephones and railroads to air traffic control networks. Prominent examples include Jane Summerton (editor), Changing Large Technical Systems. (Boulder Colo.: Westview Press, 1994);
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18. Bruno Latour, "On Technical Mediation -Philosophy, Sociology, Genealogy," Common Knowledge, volume 2 (1993), pp. 29-64.
19. See for example Tarleton Gillespie, Wired Shut: Copyright and the Realignment of Digital Culture. (Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 2007).
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