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Smart Grids and Smart Markets: the Promises and Politics of Intelligent Infrastructures 智能电网和智能市场:智能基础设施的承诺和政治
Thinking Infrastructures Pub Date : 2019-08-07 DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062016
A. Folkers
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引用次数: 2
Thinking Infrastructure and the Organization of Markets: The Creation of a Legal Market for Cannabis in Colorado 思考基础设施和市场组织:科罗拉多州大麻合法市场的创建
Thinking Infrastructures Pub Date : 2019-08-07 DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062015
D. Pflueger, T. Palermo, Daniel E. Martinez
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引用次数: 6
Infrastructures of Traceability 可追溯性的基础设施
Thinking Infrastructures Pub Date : 2019-08-07 DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062007
M. Power
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引用次数: 15
Thinking Market Infrastructure: Barcode Scanning in the US Grocery Retail Sector, 1967–2010 思考市场基础设施:条形码扫描在美国杂货零售业，1967-2010
Thinking Infrastructures Pub Date : 2019-08-07 DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062013
H. Kjellberg, J. Hagberg, Franck Cochoy
{"title":"Thinking Market Infrastructure: Barcode Scanning in the US Grocery Retail Sector, 1967–2010","authors":"H. Kjellberg, J. Hagberg, Franck Cochoy","doi":"10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062013","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the concept of market infrastructure, which is tentatively defined as a materially heterogeneous arrangement that silently supports and structures the consummation of market exchanges. Specifically, the authors investigate the enactment of market infrastructure in the US grocery retail sector by exploring how barcodes and related devices contributed to modify its market infrastructure during the period 1967–2010. Combining this empirical case with insights from previous research, the authors propose that market infrastructures are relational, available for use, modular, actively maintained, interdependent, commercial, emergent and political. The authors argue that this conception of market infrastructure provides a powerful tool for unveiling the complex agencements and engineering efforts that underpin seemingly superficial, individual and isolated market exchanges.","PeriodicalId":259781,"journal":{"name":"Thinking Infrastructures","volume":"605 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122675019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 16
From Matchmaking to Boundary Making: Thinking Infrastructures and Decentring Digital Platforms in the Sharing Economy 从配对到边界:共享经济中思考基础设施与去中心化数字平台
Thinking Infrastructures Pub Date : 2019-08-07 DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062017
R. Pujadas, Daniel Curto-Millet
{"title":"From Matchmaking to Boundary Making: Thinking Infrastructures and Decentring Digital Platforms in the Sharing Economy","authors":"R. Pujadas, Daniel Curto-Millet","doi":"10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062017","url":null,"abstract":"While digital platforms tend to be unproblematically presented as the infrastructure of the sharing economy – as matchmakers of supply and demand – the authors argue that constituting the boundaries of infrastructures is political and performative, that is, it is implicated in ontological politics, with consequences for the distribution of responsibilities (Latour, 2003; Mol, 1999, 2013; Woolgar & Lezaun, 2013). Drawing on an empirical case study of Uber, including an analysis of court cases, the authors investigate the material-discursive production of digital platforms and their participation in the reconfiguring of the world (Barad, 2007), and examine how the (in)visibility of the digital infrastructure is mobilized (Larkin, 2013) to this effect. The authors argue that the representation of Uber as a “digital platform,” as “just the technological infrastructure” connecting car drivers with clients, is a political act that attempts to redefine social responsibilities, while obscuring important dimensions of the algorithmic infrastructure that regulates this socioeconomic practice. The authors also show how some of these (in)visibilities become exposed in court, and some of the boundaries reshaped, with implications for the constitution of objects, subjects and their responsibilities. Thus, while thinking infrastructures do play a role in regulating and shaping practice through algorithms, it could be otherwise. Thinking infrastructures relationally decentre digital platforms and encourage us to study them as part of ongoing and contested entanglements in practice.","PeriodicalId":259781,"journal":{"name":"Thinking Infrastructures","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131341260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 7
Performing Apparatus: Infrastructures of Valuation in Hospitality 执行设备:酒店估价的基础设施
Thinking Infrastructures Pub Date : 2019-08-07 DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062010
W. Orlikowski, Susan V. Scott
{"title":"Performing Apparatus: Infrastructures of Valuation in Hospitality","authors":"W. Orlikowski, Susan V. Scott","doi":"10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062010","url":null,"abstract":"The authors examine infrastructures of valuation by asking how the specific materializations of categories and ratings make a difference in practice. Drawing on the notion of apparatus, the authors explore how different valuation schemes entail specific inclusions and exclusions that have material consequences for the valuations that are produced. Focusing on agential realist conceptualizations of apparatus allows a shift in attention to a particular reading of performativity in which different valuation infrastructures perform different phenomena in the world. The authors focus on two specific valuation systems within hospitality – star ratings of the Automobile Association and regional rankings on TripAdvisor – and examine how these make boundaries, direct agencies of observation and condition the possibilities for action. The authors consider the conditions of possibility that are increasingly being produced through digital infrastructures and highlight the performative uncertainties that are generated as a result of their materializations in practice.","PeriodicalId":259781,"journal":{"name":"Thinking Infrastructures","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116414499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Introduction to Thinking Infrastructures 思维基础设施简介
Thinking Infrastructures Pub Date : 2019-08-07 DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X201900000620011
G. Bowker, Julia Elyachar, M. Kornberger, Andrea Mennicken, P. Miller, Joanne Nucho, N. Pollock
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引用次数: 15
Infrastructuring as Bricolage: Thinking Like a Contemporary Knowledge Worker 基础设施的拼贴:像当代知识工作者一样思考
Thinking Infrastructures Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062020
Ingrid Erickson, S. Sawyer
{"title":"Infrastructuring as Bricolage: Thinking Like a Contemporary Knowledge Worker","authors":"Ingrid Erickson, S. Sawyer","doi":"10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062020","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter advances an articulation of the contemporary knowledge worker as an infrastructural bricoleur. The practical and pragmatic intelligence of the contemporary knowledge worker, particularly those involved in project-based work, reflects an ability to build adaptable practices and routines, and to develop a set of working arrangements that is creative and event-laden. Like Ciborra’s octopi, workers augment infrastructures by drawing on certain forms of oblique, twisted, flexible, circular, polymorphic and ambiguous thinking until an accommodation can be found. These workers understand the non-linearity of work and working, and are artful in their pursuits around, through and beyond infrastructural givens. Modern knowledge work, then, when looked at through the lens of infrastructure and bricolage, is less a story of failure to understand, a limitation in training or the shortcomings of a system, but instead is more a mirror of the contemporary realities of today’s knowledge work drift as reflected in individuals’ sociotechnical practices.","PeriodicalId":259781,"journal":{"name":"Thinking Infrastructures","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117020054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 5
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