Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment
Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment
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10.1007/978-1-4020-9789-8_5
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2010-01-01
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Ribes, David
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Bowker, Geoffrey C.;Baker, Karen;Ribes, David
本文介绍了信息基础设施研究，这是一个研究领域，涉及数字信息和组织研究中的一些核心问题。基础设施研究同时解决当地社区以及全球舞台基础设施的开发、使用和维护的技术、社会和组织方面的问题。虽然基础设施被理解为一个广泛的类别，指的是各种普遍存在的网络资源，例如铁路线、管道、发电厂和电线，但本文重点关注信息基础设施，例如计算服务和服务台，或跨多个学科的联合活动，例如解决气候变暖和生物多样性危机等问题所需的科学数据存储库和档案馆。这些是与互联网相关的元素，并且在今天经常与网络基础设施或电子科学事业相关。我们认为，对基础设施的理论理解为基于互联网的基础设施服务的设计、使用和可持续性之间所需的对话提供了背景。本文概述了基础设施研究的一个研究领域和总体主题。本文的第一部分介绍了基础设施和网络基础设施的定义，回顾了之前的重要工作。第二部分描述了基础设施研究的关键思想（知识工作、社会和政治价值观、新的社会形式等）。最后，我们考虑了当今该领域的特征。
This article presents Information Infrastructure Studies, a research area that takes up some core issues in digital information and organization research. Infrastructure Studies simultaneously addresses the technical, social, and organizational aspects of the development, usage, and maintenance of infrastructures in local communities as well as global arenas. While infrastructure is understood as a broad category referring to a variety of pervasive, enabling network resources such as railroad lines, plumbing and pipes, electrical power plants and wires, this article focuses oninformationinfrastructure, such as computational services and help desks, or federating activities such as scientific data repositories and archives spanning the multiple disciplines needed to address such issues as climate warming and the biodiversity crisis. These are elements associated with the internet and, frequently today, associated with cyberinfrastructure or e-science endeavors. We argue that a theoretical understanding of infrastructure provides the context for needed dialogue between design, use, and sustainability of internet-based infrastructure services. This article outlines a research area and outlines overarching themes of Infrastructure Studies. Part one of the paper presents definitions for infrastructure and cyberinfrastructure, reviewing salient previous work. Part two portrays key ideas from infrastructure studies (knowledge work, social and political values, new forms of sociality, etc.). In closing, the character of the field today is considered.