Thinking infrastructures

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Kornberger, Martin
• Bowker, Geoffrey C.
• Elyachar, Julia
• Mennicken, Andrea
• Miller, Peter
• Nucho, Joanne Randa
• Pollock, Neil

Publisher

Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2019

Language

English

ISBN

9781787695573

Series

Research in the sociology of organizations Vol. 62

Subject(s)

• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / INFRASTRUCTURE
• DECISION MAKING
• KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Notes

• Emerald Business Management and Economics Ebooks 2019
• Includes index

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Abstract

This volume introduces the notion of Thinking Infrastructures to explore a broad range of phenomena that structure attention, shape decision-making, and guide cognition: Thinking Infrastructures configure entities (via tracing, tagging), organise knowledge (via search engines), sort things out (via rankings and ratings), govern markets (via calculative practices, including algorithms), and configure preferences (via valuations such as recommender systems). Thus, Thinking Infrastructures, we collectively claim in this volume, inform and shape distributed and embodied cognition, including collective reasoning, structuring of attention and orchestration of decision-making.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xvii, 381 p.)

Dimension

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Prelims
Introduction to Thinking Infrastructures
Part I Valuing
Chapter 1 Assembling Calculative Infrastructures
Chapter 2 A Calculative Infrastructure in the Making: The Emergence of a Multi-layered Complex for Governing Healthcare
Chapter 3 Calculative Infrastructure for Hospitals: Governing Medical Practices and Health Expenditures through a Pricing Payment System
Chapter 4 Prospective Sensemaking and Thinking Infrastructures in a Large-scale Humanitarian Crisis
Part II Tracing
Chapter 5 Infrastructures of Traceability
Chapter 6 Capitalization by Certification: Creating Information-based Assets through the Establishment of an Identification Infrastructure
Chapter 7 Indexal Thinking – Reconfiguring Global Topologies for Market-based Intervention
Chapter 8 Performing Apparatus: Infrastructures of Valuation in Hospitality
Part III Governing Markets
Chapter 9 Thinking Transparency in European Securitization: Repurposing the Market’s Information Infrastructures
Chapter 10 Thinking Market Infrastructure: Barcode Scanning in the US Grocery Retail Sector, 1967–2010
Chapter 11 Thinking Infrastructure and the Organization of Markets: The Creation of a Legal Market for Cannabis in Colorado
Chapter 12 Smart Grids and Smart Markets: The Promises and Politics of Intelligent Infrastructures
Chapter 13 From Matchmaking to Boundary Making: Thinking Infrastructures and Decentring Digital Platforms in the Sharing Economy
Part IV Infrastructuring Society
Chapter 14 Social Media and the Infrastructuring of Sociality
Chapter 15 A Communication Perspective on the Fabric of Thinking Infrastructure: The Case of Social Media Analytics
Chapter 16 Infrastructuring as Bricolage: Thinking Like a Contemporary Knowledge Worker
Chapter 17 Designing Infrastructure for the Poor: Transactions within Unstable Ecologies
Chapter 18 Infrastructuration: On Habits, Norms and Routines as Elements of Infrastructure
Index

Exemplar(s)

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