Thinking Infrastructures
Published on 8. August 2019
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-1-78769-558-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Sociologists explore the notion of thinking infrastructures to refer to a broad range of phenomena such as rankings, ratings, and algorithms that structure attention, shape decision making, and guide cognition. In sections on valuing, tracing, governing markets, and infrastructure society, they consider such topics as prospective sensemaking and thinking infrastructure in a large-scale humanitarian crisis, performing apparatus: infrastructures of valuation in hospitality, smart grids and smart markets: the promises and politics of intelligent infrastructures, a communication perspective on the fabric of thinking infrastructure: the case of social media analytics, and designing infrastructure for the poor: transactions within unstable ecologies. -- Copyright 2019 * Portland, OR *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
728 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78769-558-0 (9781787695580)
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Martin Kornberger | Geoffrey C. Bowker | Julia Elyachar
Thinking Infrastructures
E-Book
08/2019
1st Edition
Emerald Publishing Limited
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Persons
Martin Kornberger, EM Lyon, France and WU Vienna, Austria Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine, USA
Julia Elyachar, Princeton University, USA
Andrea Mennicken, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Peter Miller, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Joanne Randa Nucho, Pomona College, Claremont, California, USA
Neil Pollock, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK
Julia Elyachar, Princeton University, USA
Andrea Mennicken, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Peter Miller, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Joanne Randa Nucho, Pomona College, Claremont, California, USA
Neil Pollock, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK
Content
Introduction
Thinking Infrastructures; Geoffrey Bowker, Julia Elyachar, Martin Kornberger, Andrea Mennicken, Peter Miller, Joanne Randa Nucho and Neil Pollock
Part 1: Valuing
Chapter 1. Assembling Calculative Infrastructures; Liisa Kurunmaeki, Andrea Mennicken and Peter Miller
Chapter 2. A Calculative Infrastructure in the Making: The Emergence of a Multi-Layered Complex for Governing Healthcare; Jacob Reilley and Tobias Scheytt
Chapter 3. Calculative Infrastructure for Hospitals. Governing Medical Practices and Health Expenditures Through A Pricing Payment System; Pierre-Andre Juven
Chapter 4. Prospective Sensemaking and Thinking Infrastructures in a Large-Scale Humanitarian Crisis; Marian Konstantin Gatzweiler and Matteo Ronzani
Part 2: Tracing
Chapter 5. Infrastructures of Traceability; Michael Power
Chapter 6. Capitalisation by Certification: Creating Information-Based Assets Through the Establishment of an Identification Infrastructure; Yuval Millo, Nikiforos Panourgias and Markos Zachariadis
Chapter 7. Regulatory Ranking - Reconfiguring Global Topologies of Actorhood for Market-Based Intervention; Afshin Mehrpouya and Rita Samiolo
Chapter 8. Performing Apparatus: Infrastructures of Valuation in Hospitality; Wanda J. Orlikowski and Susan V. Scott
Part 3: Governing Markets
Chapter 9. Thinking Transparency in European Securitisation: Repurposing the Market's Information Infrastructures; Antonios Kaniadakis and Amany Elbanna
Chapter 10. Enacting a Digital Market Infrastructure in the US Grocery Retail Sector, 1967-2010; Hans Kjellberg, Johan Hagberg and Franck Cochoy
Chapter 11. Thinking Infrastructure and The Organisation of Markets: The Creation of a Legal Market for Cannabis in Colorado; Dane Pflueger, Tommaso Palermo and Daniel Martinez
Chapter 12. Smart Grids and Smart Markets. The Promises and Politics of Intelligent Infrastructures; Andreas Folkers
Chapter 13. Thinking Infrastructures and Decentering Digital Platforms in the Sharing Economy: From Matchmaking to Boundary Making; Roser Pujadas and Daniel Curto-Millet
Part 4: Infra-structuring Society
Chapter 14. Social Media and The Infrastructuring of Sociality; Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos
Chapter 15. A Communication Perspective on The Fabric of Thinking Infrastructure: The Case of Social Media Analytics; Francois Lambotte
Chapter 16. Infrastructuring as Bricolage: Thinking Like a Contemporary Knowledge Worker; Ingrid Erickson and Steven Sawyer
Chapter 17. Designing Infrastructure for the Poor: Transactions Within Unstable Ecologies; Celine Cholez and Pascale Trompette
Chapter 18. Infrastructuration: On Habits, Norms, and Routines as Elements of Infrastructure; Paul Edwards
Thinking Infrastructures; Geoffrey Bowker, Julia Elyachar, Martin Kornberger, Andrea Mennicken, Peter Miller, Joanne Randa Nucho and Neil Pollock
Part 1: Valuing
Chapter 1. Assembling Calculative Infrastructures; Liisa Kurunmaeki, Andrea Mennicken and Peter Miller
Chapter 2. A Calculative Infrastructure in the Making: The Emergence of a Multi-Layered Complex for Governing Healthcare; Jacob Reilley and Tobias Scheytt
Chapter 3. Calculative Infrastructure for Hospitals. Governing Medical Practices and Health Expenditures Through A Pricing Payment System; Pierre-Andre Juven
Chapter 4. Prospective Sensemaking and Thinking Infrastructures in a Large-Scale Humanitarian Crisis; Marian Konstantin Gatzweiler and Matteo Ronzani
Part 2: Tracing
Chapter 5. Infrastructures of Traceability; Michael Power
Chapter 6. Capitalisation by Certification: Creating Information-Based Assets Through the Establishment of an Identification Infrastructure; Yuval Millo, Nikiforos Panourgias and Markos Zachariadis
Chapter 7. Regulatory Ranking - Reconfiguring Global Topologies of Actorhood for Market-Based Intervention; Afshin Mehrpouya and Rita Samiolo
Chapter 8. Performing Apparatus: Infrastructures of Valuation in Hospitality; Wanda J. Orlikowski and Susan V. Scott
Part 3: Governing Markets
Chapter 9. Thinking Transparency in European Securitisation: Repurposing the Market's Information Infrastructures; Antonios Kaniadakis and Amany Elbanna
Chapter 10. Enacting a Digital Market Infrastructure in the US Grocery Retail Sector, 1967-2010; Hans Kjellberg, Johan Hagberg and Franck Cochoy
Chapter 11. Thinking Infrastructure and The Organisation of Markets: The Creation of a Legal Market for Cannabis in Colorado; Dane Pflueger, Tommaso Palermo and Daniel Martinez
Chapter 12. Smart Grids and Smart Markets. The Promises and Politics of Intelligent Infrastructures; Andreas Folkers
Chapter 13. Thinking Infrastructures and Decentering Digital Platforms in the Sharing Economy: From Matchmaking to Boundary Making; Roser Pujadas and Daniel Curto-Millet
Part 4: Infra-structuring Society
Chapter 14. Social Media and The Infrastructuring of Sociality; Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos
Chapter 15. A Communication Perspective on The Fabric of Thinking Infrastructure: The Case of Social Media Analytics; Francois Lambotte
Chapter 16. Infrastructuring as Bricolage: Thinking Like a Contemporary Knowledge Worker; Ingrid Erickson and Steven Sawyer
Chapter 17. Designing Infrastructure for the Poor: Transactions Within Unstable Ecologies; Celine Cholez and Pascale Trompette
Chapter 18. Infrastructuration: On Habits, Norms, and Routines as Elements of Infrastructure; Paul Edwards