Thinking Infrastructures.
Kornberger, Martin.
Thinking Infrastructures. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (400 pages) - Research in the Sociology of Organizations Series ; v.62 . - Research in the Sociology of Organizations Series .
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures AND TABLES -- Figures -- Tables -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Introduction to Thinking Infrastructures -- Why Thinking Infrastructures? -- Thinking Infrastructures as Analytical Vocabulary -- Valuing -- Tracing -- Governing -- Relating Thinking Infrastructures to Ongoing Conversations -- Materiality and the Performativity of Devices -- Distributed Cognition and Social Infrastructures -- Information, Knowledge and Thinking Infrastructures -- Contributions to this Volume -- References -- Chapter 01-Assembling Calculative Infrastructures -- Introduction1 -- Economizing Failure -- Creating New Entities -- Calculating Failure -- Making Failure Operational -- Rethinking Failure -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 02-A Calculative Infrastructure in the Making: The Emergence of a Multi-Layered Complex for Governing Healthcare -- Introduction -- Governing by Quantification, Calculation and Infrastructures -- When is an Infrastructure? Moments of Convergence and Processes of Layering -- Making a Calculative Infrastructure for Governing Quality -- The Foundational Layer: Making Quality Calculable and Enabling Selective Intervention -- The Second Layer - Quality-based Competition and Self-regulating Hospitals -- Discussion -- Infrastructures are Flexible Enough to Serve Multiple Modalities for Governance -- Incubation Periods Shape Infrastructure Development -- Infrastructures Support Multiple Notions of Quality -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Primary Documents Cited -- Grey Literature Cited -- Chapter 03-Calculative Infrastructure for Hospitals: Governing Medical Practices and Health Expenditures Through a Pricing Payment System -- Introduction -- From Cost Accounting to PPS -- State Ignorance. From Costing to Pricing: The Birth of the T2A -- Rates as a Tool of Government to Reduce Variance -- Reducing Variance between Hospital Budgets and Controlling the National Hospital Expenditures -- Governing Medical Practices: A "Rate-Based Medicine"? -- A Metrological Controversy: A Problematic Variance -- An Under-valuation of Cystic Fibrosis -- Redoing the Calculation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 04-Prospective Sensemaking and Thinking Infrastructures in a Large-Scale Humanitarian Crisis -- Introduction -- The Challenge to Account for the Unexpected: Thinking Infrastructures in Unstable Environments -- Sensemaking Theory -- Prospective Sensemaking, Artifacts and Thinking Infrastructures -- Methodology -- Data Collection -- Data analysis -- Collective Sensemaking and Thinking Infrastructures in a Large-Scale Humanitarian Crisis -- Breaking Away from a Reductionist Approach: The Role of Sphere's Evaluative Tensions in Making Sense of the Unexpected -- From Retrospective Reflection to Exploring Tentative New Understandings: Evaluation as a Participatory Process -- Implicating Thinking Infrastructures in Materializing New Understandings -- Discussion -- Fostering Conditions for Prospective Sensemaking: The Role of Evaluative Tensions in Thinking Infrastructures -- Exploring Prospective Futures: Evaluation Through Open and Participatory Design -- Refining, Testing and Materializing: Performance Measures as Sensegiving Resources -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 05-Infrastructures of Traceability -- Introduction -- Traceability Infrastructure as an Idea -- The Materiality of Traceability Infrastructures -- Traceability Infrastructure as a Process -- The Dynamics of Traceability Infrastructures -- Entities, Traceability and Governance -- Distributed Agency and Responsibility. -- Dialectics of Connectivity and Disconnectivity. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 06-CapitaliZation By Certification: Creating Information-Based Assets Through the Establishment of an Identification Infrastructure -- Introduction -- Identification and Infrastructure Making -- The "Pivotality" and "Linkability" of Identification Data -- Turning Identification Data into Assets -- Case Illustrating the Theory: Regulating Financial Markets Through an IDI -- Data Quality and Evolution of LEI -- Depoliticizing Infrastructure-Making Through Measurement -- Capitalization By Certification -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 07-Indexal Thinking - Reconfiguring Global Topologies for Market-Based Intervention -- INTRODUCTION -- REGULATORY RANKING AND "INDEXAL THINKING" -- ACCESS TO MEDICINE AS A GLOBAL PROBLEM SPACE -- THE ACCESS TO MEDICINE INDEX -- TERRITORIALIzING A GLOBAL NEED -- Infrastructural Patchwork - Expanding the Diseases of the Poor -- Infrastructural Collage - Expanding Geographies of Need -- INDEXAL THINKING AND GLOBAL PLAYGROUNDS -- References -- Chapter 08-Performing Apparatus: Infrastructures of Valuation in Hospitality -- Introduction -- Valuation Apparatus -- Materializing User-Based Valuation -- Digital Apparatus-In-Practice -- Case 1: The New London Café -- Case 2: The Shed at Dulwich -- Materializing Digital Thinking Infrastructure -- References -- Chapter 09-Thinking Transparency in European Securitization: Repurposing the Market's Information Infrastructures -- Introduction -- Information Infrastructure and Transparency -- Information Infrastructure as a Market Infrastructure -- Research Methods and Data Collection -- Data Collection and Analysis -- Research Findings -- Transparency in the Securitization Industry: A Risk Management Issue -- The Securitization Market Infrastructure Before the Crisis: Actors, Standards and Data. The Securitization Market Infrastructure After the Crisis: New Actors and New Data Requirements -- Materializing Transparency: How Data Become Available -- Discussion: Transparency Work -- Thinking about Transparency: Organizing Transparency Work as a Standardization Network -- Thinking Infrastructure: Performing Transparency Work as "Calculative Agency" -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10-Thinking market infrastructure: barcode scanning in the us grocery retail sector, 1967-2010 -- Introduction -- Studying the Enactment of a Digital Market Infrastructure -- Phase 1: Developing the UPC, Barcodes and Scanners (1967-1978) -- Phase 2: Toward Checkout Scanning and Store-wide Information Systems (1975-1990) -- Phase 3: An Emerging Barcode-based Retail Infrastructure (1987-2010) -- Discussion: Towards a Conceptualization of Market Infrastructures -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11-Thinking Infrastructure and the Organization of Markets: The Creation of a Legal Market for Cannabis in Colorado -- Introduction -- Research Context and Data Collection -- METRC -- METRC as Market Device -- Making the Market Legible -- Legibility and Reactivity -- METRC as Infrastructure -- Loose Ecology of Devices: Add-ons and Patches -- Generativity: Disclosing Market Boundaries -- Master Narratives: The Changing Terms of Competition -- Discussion -- From Knowing Devices to Thinking Infrastructures -- Control as Protocol -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12-Smart Grids and Smart Markets: the Promises and Politics of Intelligent Infrastructures -- Introduction -- Thinking Infrastructure Politically -- Resisting Nuclear Power -- Promoting Renewable Energies -- Integrating Renewables: the Infrastructural Challenge of the Energy Transition -- From Stock to Flow -- Smart Technologies? Markets and/as Information Infrastructures. The Market as Information Processor -- Designing Market Intelligence -- Domo Oeconomicus. Domesticating Economic Agency -- Domotics and the Constitution of Economic Environments -- The Knowledge Lost in Market Information -- Conclusion: Smart Grids and the Objective Spirit of Distributed Capitalism -- References -- Chapter 13-From Matchmaking to Boundary Making: Thinking Infrastructures and Decentring Digital Platforms in the Sharing Economy -- Introduction -- Digital Platforms in the Sharing Economy -- Thinking Infrastructure and Opening Up the Meaning of Digital Platforms -- Constituting Boundaries and Responsibilities: the Case of UBER -- A Matter of Regulation: Algorithms and the Court -- Ontological Politics -- Thinking Infrastructures and Infrastructure Thinking -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14-Social Media and the Infrastructuring of Sociality -- Introduction -- The Relevance of Social Interaction: Actions, Scripts and Forms of Sociality -- The Infrastructuring of Social Media -- The Encoding of Social Interaction -- Forms of Sociality Organized by Measures and Algorithms -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 15-A Communication Perspective on the Fabric of Thinking Infrastructure: the Case of Social Media Analytics -- Introduction -- A Communication Perspective on the Fabric of Social Media Analytics -- Materiality and Mattering of Digitally Mediated Interactions -- Methodology -- The Factory of Social Media Analytics -- Creating, Extracting, Selecting and Formatting Digital Traces of Our Interactions -- Algorithms as Writers of the Story of Digitally Mediated Conversations (Translations T3 and T4) -- Synthesis of Our Contribution -- References -- Chapter 16-Infrastructuring as Bricolage: Thinking Like a Contemporary Knowledge Worker -- From Extensible to Bespoke Infrastructures. Infrastructuring as Bricolage, Workers as OCTOPI.
Thinking Infrastructuresbrings together interdisciplinary research on informational infrastructures to show how thinking, thought, and cognition as in ideas/rationalities and the practice/activity of thinking are inseparable from infrastructures.
9781787695573
Knowledge management.
Decision making.
Electronic books.
HB1-3840
658.4/038
Thinking Infrastructures. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (400 pages) - Research in the Sociology of Organizations Series ; v.62 . - Research in the Sociology of Organizations Series .
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures AND TABLES -- Figures -- Tables -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Introduction to Thinking Infrastructures -- Why Thinking Infrastructures? -- Thinking Infrastructures as Analytical Vocabulary -- Valuing -- Tracing -- Governing -- Relating Thinking Infrastructures to Ongoing Conversations -- Materiality and the Performativity of Devices -- Distributed Cognition and Social Infrastructures -- Information, Knowledge and Thinking Infrastructures -- Contributions to this Volume -- References -- Chapter 01-Assembling Calculative Infrastructures -- Introduction1 -- Economizing Failure -- Creating New Entities -- Calculating Failure -- Making Failure Operational -- Rethinking Failure -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 02-A Calculative Infrastructure in the Making: The Emergence of a Multi-Layered Complex for Governing Healthcare -- Introduction -- Governing by Quantification, Calculation and Infrastructures -- When is an Infrastructure? Moments of Convergence and Processes of Layering -- Making a Calculative Infrastructure for Governing Quality -- The Foundational Layer: Making Quality Calculable and Enabling Selective Intervention -- The Second Layer - Quality-based Competition and Self-regulating Hospitals -- Discussion -- Infrastructures are Flexible Enough to Serve Multiple Modalities for Governance -- Incubation Periods Shape Infrastructure Development -- Infrastructures Support Multiple Notions of Quality -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Primary Documents Cited -- Grey Literature Cited -- Chapter 03-Calculative Infrastructure for Hospitals: Governing Medical Practices and Health Expenditures Through a Pricing Payment System -- Introduction -- From Cost Accounting to PPS -- State Ignorance. From Costing to Pricing: The Birth of the T2A -- Rates as a Tool of Government to Reduce Variance -- Reducing Variance between Hospital Budgets and Controlling the National Hospital Expenditures -- Governing Medical Practices: A "Rate-Based Medicine"? -- A Metrological Controversy: A Problematic Variance -- An Under-valuation of Cystic Fibrosis -- Redoing the Calculation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 04-Prospective Sensemaking and Thinking Infrastructures in a Large-Scale Humanitarian Crisis -- Introduction -- The Challenge to Account for the Unexpected: Thinking Infrastructures in Unstable Environments -- Sensemaking Theory -- Prospective Sensemaking, Artifacts and Thinking Infrastructures -- Methodology -- Data Collection -- Data analysis -- Collective Sensemaking and Thinking Infrastructures in a Large-Scale Humanitarian Crisis -- Breaking Away from a Reductionist Approach: The Role of Sphere's Evaluative Tensions in Making Sense of the Unexpected -- From Retrospective Reflection to Exploring Tentative New Understandings: Evaluation as a Participatory Process -- Implicating Thinking Infrastructures in Materializing New Understandings -- Discussion -- Fostering Conditions for Prospective Sensemaking: The Role of Evaluative Tensions in Thinking Infrastructures -- Exploring Prospective Futures: Evaluation Through Open and Participatory Design -- Refining, Testing and Materializing: Performance Measures as Sensegiving Resources -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 05-Infrastructures of Traceability -- Introduction -- Traceability Infrastructure as an Idea -- The Materiality of Traceability Infrastructures -- Traceability Infrastructure as a Process -- The Dynamics of Traceability Infrastructures -- Entities, Traceability and Governance -- Distributed Agency and Responsibility. -- Dialectics of Connectivity and Disconnectivity. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 06-CapitaliZation By Certification: Creating Information-Based Assets Through the Establishment of an Identification Infrastructure -- Introduction -- Identification and Infrastructure Making -- The "Pivotality" and "Linkability" of Identification Data -- Turning Identification Data into Assets -- Case Illustrating the Theory: Regulating Financial Markets Through an IDI -- Data Quality and Evolution of LEI -- Depoliticizing Infrastructure-Making Through Measurement -- Capitalization By Certification -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 07-Indexal Thinking - Reconfiguring Global Topologies for Market-Based Intervention -- INTRODUCTION -- REGULATORY RANKING AND "INDEXAL THINKING" -- ACCESS TO MEDICINE AS A GLOBAL PROBLEM SPACE -- THE ACCESS TO MEDICINE INDEX -- TERRITORIALIzING A GLOBAL NEED -- Infrastructural Patchwork - Expanding the Diseases of the Poor -- Infrastructural Collage - Expanding Geographies of Need -- INDEXAL THINKING AND GLOBAL PLAYGROUNDS -- References -- Chapter 08-Performing Apparatus: Infrastructures of Valuation in Hospitality -- Introduction -- Valuation Apparatus -- Materializing User-Based Valuation -- Digital Apparatus-In-Practice -- Case 1: The New London Café -- Case 2: The Shed at Dulwich -- Materializing Digital Thinking Infrastructure -- References -- Chapter 09-Thinking Transparency in European Securitization: Repurposing the Market's Information Infrastructures -- Introduction -- Information Infrastructure and Transparency -- Information Infrastructure as a Market Infrastructure -- Research Methods and Data Collection -- Data Collection and Analysis -- Research Findings -- Transparency in the Securitization Industry: A Risk Management Issue -- The Securitization Market Infrastructure Before the Crisis: Actors, Standards and Data. The Securitization Market Infrastructure After the Crisis: New Actors and New Data Requirements -- Materializing Transparency: How Data Become Available -- Discussion: Transparency Work -- Thinking about Transparency: Organizing Transparency Work as a Standardization Network -- Thinking Infrastructure: Performing Transparency Work as "Calculative Agency" -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10-Thinking market infrastructure: barcode scanning in the us grocery retail sector, 1967-2010 -- Introduction -- Studying the Enactment of a Digital Market Infrastructure -- Phase 1: Developing the UPC, Barcodes and Scanners (1967-1978) -- Phase 2: Toward Checkout Scanning and Store-wide Information Systems (1975-1990) -- Phase 3: An Emerging Barcode-based Retail Infrastructure (1987-2010) -- Discussion: Towards a Conceptualization of Market Infrastructures -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11-Thinking Infrastructure and the Organization of Markets: The Creation of a Legal Market for Cannabis in Colorado -- Introduction -- Research Context and Data Collection -- METRC -- METRC as Market Device -- Making the Market Legible -- Legibility and Reactivity -- METRC as Infrastructure -- Loose Ecology of Devices: Add-ons and Patches -- Generativity: Disclosing Market Boundaries -- Master Narratives: The Changing Terms of Competition -- Discussion -- From Knowing Devices to Thinking Infrastructures -- Control as Protocol -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12-Smart Grids and Smart Markets: the Promises and Politics of Intelligent Infrastructures -- Introduction -- Thinking Infrastructure Politically -- Resisting Nuclear Power -- Promoting Renewable Energies -- Integrating Renewables: the Infrastructural Challenge of the Energy Transition -- From Stock to Flow -- Smart Technologies? Markets and/as Information Infrastructures. The Market as Information Processor -- Designing Market Intelligence -- Domo Oeconomicus. Domesticating Economic Agency -- Domotics and the Constitution of Economic Environments -- The Knowledge Lost in Market Information -- Conclusion: Smart Grids and the Objective Spirit of Distributed Capitalism -- References -- Chapter 13-From Matchmaking to Boundary Making: Thinking Infrastructures and Decentring Digital Platforms in the Sharing Economy -- Introduction -- Digital Platforms in the Sharing Economy -- Thinking Infrastructure and Opening Up the Meaning of Digital Platforms -- Constituting Boundaries and Responsibilities: the Case of UBER -- A Matter of Regulation: Algorithms and the Court -- Ontological Politics -- Thinking Infrastructures and Infrastructure Thinking -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14-Social Media and the Infrastructuring of Sociality -- Introduction -- The Relevance of Social Interaction: Actions, Scripts and Forms of Sociality -- The Infrastructuring of Social Media -- The Encoding of Social Interaction -- Forms of Sociality Organized by Measures and Algorithms -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 15-A Communication Perspective on the Fabric of Thinking Infrastructure: the Case of Social Media Analytics -- Introduction -- A Communication Perspective on the Fabric of Social Media Analytics -- Materiality and Mattering of Digitally Mediated Interactions -- Methodology -- The Factory of Social Media Analytics -- Creating, Extracting, Selecting and Formatting Digital Traces of Our Interactions -- Algorithms as Writers of the Story of Digitally Mediated Conversations (Translations T3 and T4) -- Synthesis of Our Contribution -- References -- Chapter 16-Infrastructuring as Bricolage: Thinking Like a Contemporary Knowledge Worker -- From Extensible to Bespoke Infrastructures. Infrastructuring as Bricolage, Workers as OCTOPI.
Thinking Infrastructuresbrings together interdisciplinary research on informational infrastructures to show how thinking, thought, and cognition as in ideas/rationalities and the practice/activity of thinking are inseparable from infrastructures.
9781787695573
Knowledge management.
Decision making.
Electronic books.
HB1-3840
658.4/038