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title: Infrastructure
date_created: 2021-04-11
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Infrastructure Studies in context of internet: **MEDIATION, PROCESS BUILDING, SYSTEM SUSTAINING, TIME SCALES** [Geoffrey C. Bowker, Karen Baker, Florence Miller, and David Ribes. 2010. Toward information infrastructure studies: Ways of knowing in a networked environment. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9789-8_5]
> An alternative vision of infrastructure may better take into account the social and organizational dimensions of infrastructure. This vision requires adopting a long term rather than immediate timeframe and thinking about infrastructure not only in terms of human versus technological components but in terms of a set of interrelated social, organizational, and technical components or systems (whether the data will be shared, systems interoperable, standards proprietary, or maintenance and redesign factored in)... a major shift in thinking. It involves changing common views and metaphors on infrastructure: from transparency to visibility, from substrate to substance, from short term to long term
<https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9789-8_5>