CI Studies Bibliography – Ethnographical Approaches

Douglas-Jones, Rachel, Antonia Walford, and Nick Seaver. “Introduction: Towards an Anthropology of Data.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27, no. S1 (2021): 9–25. https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9655.13477. Cite

Tkacz, Nathaniel, Mário Henrique da Mata Martins, João Porto de Albuquerque, Flávio Horita, and Giovanni Dolif Neto. “Data Diaries: A Situated Approach to the Study of Data.” Big Data & Society 8, no. 1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951721996036. Cite

Ballestero, Andrea. A Future History of Water. Durham ; London: Duke University Press, 2019. Cite

Taylor, A. R. E. “The Data Center as Technological Wilderness.” Culture Machine, 2019. https://culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-nature-of-data-centers/the-data-center-as/. Cite

Groot Kormelink, Tim, and Irene Costera Meijer. “Material and Sensory Dimensions of Everyday News Use.” Media, Culture & Society, 2019, 016344371881091. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443718810910. Cite

Anand, Nikhil, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, eds. The Promise of Infrastructure. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/70202. Cite

Sørensen, Estrid, and Laura Kocksch. “Data Centres, Data Owners, Data Lakes - Infrastructures and Flow in Science & Technology Studies.” Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), 2018. Cite

Knox, Hannah. “An Infrastructural Approach to Digital Ethnography: Lessons from the Manchester Infrastructures of Social Change Project.” In The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography, 354–62. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1565364/. Cite

Christie, Michael. “Words, Ontologies and Aboriginal Databases.” Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X0511600107. Cite

Bowker, Geoffrey C., Stefan Timmermans, Adele E. Clarke, and Ellen Balka, eds. Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star. Infrastructures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/boundary-objects-and-beyond. Cite

Vaccaro, Ismael, Krista Harper, and Murray, eds. The Anthropology of Postindustrialism: Ethnographies of Disconnection. New York: Routledge, 2016. https://www.routledge.com/The-Anthropology-of-Postindustrialism-Ethnographies-of-Disconnection/Vaccaro-Harper-Murray/p/book/9781138943643. Cite

Harvey, Penelope, and Hannah Knox. Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise. Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.). Ithaca ; London: Cornell University Press, 2015. Cite

Gordillo, Gastón. Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. Cite

Larkin, Brian. “The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure.” Annual Review of Anthropology 42, no. 1 (October 21, 2013): 327–43. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092412-155522. Cite

Jensen, Casper Bruun, and Brit Ross Winthereik. Monitoring Movements in Development Aid: Recursive Partnerships and Infrastructures. Infrastructures. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2013. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/monitoring-movements-development-aid. Cite

Askins, Kye, and Rachel Pain. “Contact Zones: Participation, Materiality, and the Messiness of Interaction.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 29, no. 5 (2011): 803–21. https://doi.org/10.1068/d11109. Cite

Mark, Gloria, and Norman Makoto Su. “Making Infrastructure Visible for Nomadic Work.” Pervasive and Mobile Computing 6, no. 3 (2010): 312–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2009.12.004. Cite

Bowker, Geoffrey C., Karen Baker, Florence Miller, and David Ribes. “Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment.” In In Hunsinger et al. (Eds) International Handbook of Internet Research, 97–117. Springer, 2010. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.454.2119. Cite

Edwards, Paul, Geoffrey Bowker, Steven Jackson, and Robin Williams. “Introduction: An Agenda for Infrastructure Studies.” Journal of the Association for Information Systems 10, no. 5 (2009): 364–74. https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00200. Cite

Larkin, Brian. Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. Cite

Edwards, Paul N., Steven J. Jackson, Geoffrey C. Bowker, and Cory P. Knobel. “Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and Design: Report of a Workshop on ‘History & Theory of Infrastructure: Lessons for New Scientific Cyberinfrastructures.’” University of Michigan Library, Deep Blue Repository, June 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/49353. Cite

Dourish, Paul, and Genevieve Bell. “The Infrastructure of Experience and the Experience of Infrastructure: Meaning and Structure in Everyday Encounters with Space.” Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 34, no. 3 (2007): 414–30. https://doi.org/10.1068/b32035t. Cite

Simone, A. “People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg.” Public Culture 16, no. 3 (2004): 407–29. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-16-3-407. Cite

Edwards, Paul N. “Infrastructure and Modernity: Force, Time, and Social Organization in the History of Sociotechnical Systems.” In Modernity and Technology, 185–225. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. Cite

Star, Susan Leigh. “Infrastructure and Ethnographic Practice: Working on the Fringes.” Scand. J. Inf. Syst. 14, no. 2 (2002): 107–22. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=782686.782695. Cite

Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star. Sorting Things out: Classification and Its Consequences. First paperback edition. Inside Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England: The MIT Press, 2000. Cite

Star, Susan Leigh. “The Ethnography of Infrastructure.” American Behavioral Scientist 43, no. 3 (1999): 377–91. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027649921955326. Cite

Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star. “Building Information Infrastructures for Social Worlds - The Role of Classifications and Standards.” In Community Computing and Support Systems, Social Interaction in Networked Communities [the Book Is Based on the Kyoto Meeting on Social Interaction and Communityware, Held in Kyoto, Japan, in June 1998], 231–48. London, UK, UK: Springer-Verlag, 1998. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=646698.701381. Cite

Star, Susan Leigh, and Karen Ruhleder. “Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure: Design and Access For Large Information Spaces.” Information Systems Research 7, no. 1 (1996): 111–34. https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.7.1.111. Cite

Neumann, Laura J., and Susan Leigh Star. “Making Infrastructure: The Dream of a Common Language.” Participatory Design, 1996, 231–40. http://ojs.ruc.dk/index.php/pdc/article/view/153. Cite

Orr, Julian E. Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job. Collection on Technology and Work. Ithaca, N.Y: ILR Press, 1996. Cite

Gioia, Dennis A., and Kumar Chittipeddi. “Sensemaking and Sensegiving in Strategic Change Initiation.” Strategic Management Journal 12, no. 6 (1991): 433–48. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2486479. Cite