Ethnography of scaling or, how to fit a national research infrastructure in the room

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 158-170

  Ribes, David ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Ethnography; Grounded theory; Infrastructure; Large scale; Methodology

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; ETHNOGRAPHY; GROUNDED THEORY; INFRASTRUCTURE; LARGE-SCALE; METHODOLOGY;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84899026758     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531624     Document Type: Conference Paper

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