Small technologies, big change: Rethinking infrastructure through STS and geography
Small technologies, big change: Rethinking infrastructure through STS and geography
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小技术，大改变：通过 STS 和地理重新思考基础设施
DOI：
10.1177/0309132510380488
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
7.1
通讯作者：
K. Furlong
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作者：
K. Furlong
基础设施往往被认为是稳定的和“黑箱”的，与用户的互动很少。这种固定性是在流动的方式尚未充分考虑在地理或科学和技术研究（STS）。在环境和经济问题的驱动下，水务公司越来越多地将效率技术引入基础设施网络。这些，我认为，作为“中介技术”改变长期接受的社会技术和环境关系的城市。本文认为，基础设施的新方法，通过整合STS和地理的见解，突出其延展性，并提供概念工具，考虑如何培养这种延展性。
Infrastructure tends to be conceived as stabilized and ‘black-boxed’ with little interaction from users. This fixity is in flux in ways not yet fully considered in either geography or science and technology studies (STS). Driven by environmental and economic concerns, water utilities are increasingly introducing efficiency technologies into infrastructure networks. These, I argue, serve as ‘mediating technologies’ shifting long-accepted socio-technical and environmental relationships in cities. The essay argues for a new approach to infrastructure that, by integrating insights from STS and geography, highlights its malleability and offers conceptual tools to consider how this malleability might be fostered.
技术轨迹：地理学和技术研究中的新旧对话
影响因子：
2.5
作者：
D. Dixon;M. Whitehead
通讯作者：
M. Whitehead