Information infrastructure(s) boundaries, ecologies, multiplicity / edited by Alessandro Mongili and Giuseppina Pellegrino ; foreword by Geoffrey C. Bowker.

Other author Mongili, Alessandro.
Other author Pellegrino, Giuseppina, 1974-
Other author Bowker, Geoffrey C.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNewcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Descriptionxlvi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Contents The boundaries of information infrastructures : an introduction / Alessandro Mongili and Guiseppina Pellegrino -- I. Designing and Articulating Information Infrastructures. Designers as Users : Blurring Positions and Theories in Creative Practices / Alessandro Mongili -- Contingency in Infrastructures : Vulnerability, Ductility, Resilience / Giuseppina Pellegrino -- Infrastructure Innovation in Health Care : The Example of Automatic Drug Dispensing in Germany / Stefan Klein and Stefan Schellhammer -- II. Information Infrastructures as Ecological Tools. The Design Knowledge Multiple : Deconstructing Balance in an Open Source Video Game Infrastructure / Giacomo Poderi -- The Laboratory Kit between Infrastructure and Boundary Object / Federico Neresini and Assunta Viteritti -- Give Us a Protocol and We Will Rise a Lab : The Shaping of Infra-Structuring Objects / Stefano Crabu -- III. Users, Information Infrastructures and Mobilities. Parasite Users? The Volunteer Mapping of Cycling Infrastructures / Jerome Denis and David Pontille -- Digital Texts : Reading and Writing Practices at the Digital Turning Point / Gian Paolo Lazzer and Paolo Giardullo -- "Dispositives" of Flexible Mobility for Travelling Humans and Technologies / Oana Mitrea -- Between Standard and Situated Uses : Configuring the User in a Technical Call Centre / Simona Isabella -- IV. On Boundary Objects, and On Multiplicity. Organizations as Boundary Objects : Organizing Business between Research and the Market / Francesco Miele -- Influence and Multiplicity of Risk Thresholds in Preventative Medicine : The Case of Advanced Maternal Age / Mauro Turrini -- From Science Parks to Infrastructures / Michela Cozza -- Convergence : History, Meanings and Implications for the Design of Community Interactions / Giuseppe Lugano.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2015514547
ISBN1443866555 (cloth)
ISBN9781443866552 (cloth)
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