CI Studies Bibliography – Information and IT

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ToC rev. 29 May 2022

Works in the CI Studies Bibliography tagged “Information and IT” cover topics ranging from the concept or history of information to “information technology” (IT) treated  generally or in specific forms. (There is some overlap with works tagged “Internet & ICT”.)

Holt, Jennifer. Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data. Distribution Matters. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2024. Cite
Schober, Regina. Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk: Networks in US American Literature and Culture. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111060590. Cite
Pawlicka-Deger, Urszula. “Infrastructuring Digital Humanities: On Relational Infrastructure and Global Reconfiguration of the Field.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 37, no. 2 (2022): 534–50. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab086. Cite
Pritchard, Helen V., and Femke Snelting. Infrastructural Interactions Workbook. Brussels: TITiPI (The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest), 2022. https://titipi.org/pub/Infrastructural_Interactions.pdf. Cite
Hockenberry, Matthew Curtis, Nicole Starosielski, and Susan Marjorie Zieger, eds. Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. Cite
Posner, Miriam. “Breakpoints and Black Boxes: Information in Global Supply Chains.” Postmodern Culture 31, no. 3 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.2021.0002. Cite
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
Robertson, Craig. Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information. S.l.: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 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
Thorat, Dhanashree. “Modalities of Data Colonialism and South Asian Hashtag Publics.” Feminist Media Studies 21, no. 1 (2021): 151–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.1864874. Cite
Thylstrup, Nanna Bonde, Daniela Agostinho, Annie Ring, Catherine D’Ignazio, and Kristin Veel, eds. Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2021. Cite
Edmond, Jennifer, and Open Book Publishers, eds. Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Open Book Publishers, 2020. Cite
Ruest, Nick, Jimmy Lin, Ian Milligan, and Samantha Fritz. “The Archives Unleashed Project: Technology, Process, and Community to Improve Scholarly Access to Web Archives.” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2020, 157–66. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3383583.3398513. Cite
Borgman, Christine L. “Whose Text, Whose Mining, and to Whose Benefit?” Quantitative Science Studies 1, no. 3 (2020): 993–1000. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00053. Cite
Mullaney, Thomas S., Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip, eds. Your Computer Is on Fire. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2020. Cite
Kizhner, Inna, Melissa Terras, Maxim Rumyantsev, Valentina Khokhlova, Elisaveta Demeshkova, Ivan Rudov, and Julia Afanasieva. “Digital Cultural Colonialism: Measuring Bias in Aggregated Digitized Content Held in Google Arts and Culture.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaa055. Cite
Gollihue, Krystin, and Mai Nou Xiong-Gum. “Dataweaving: Textiles as Data Materialization.” Kairos 25, no. 1 (2020). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/25.1/disputatio/gollihue-xiong-gum/index.html. Cite
Culture Machine. “The Nature of Data Centers.” Culture Machine, March 23, 2019. https://culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-nature-of-data-centers/. Cite
Ricaurte, Paola. “Data Epistemologies, The Coloniality of Power, and Resistance:” Television & New Media 20, no. 4 (March 7, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476419831640. Cite
Karvonen, Andrew, Federico Cugurullo, and Federico Caprotti, eds. Inside Smart Cities: Place, Politics and Urban Innovation. New York, N.Y: Routledge, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351166201. Cite
Edwards, Paul N. “Infrastructuration: On Habits, Norms and Routines as Elements of Infrastructure.” In Thinking Infrastructures, 355–66. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062022. Cite
Borgman, Christine L., Andrea Scharnhorst, and Milena S. Golshan. “Digital Data Archives as Knowledge Infrastructures: Mediating Data Sharing and Reuse.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 70, no. 8 (2019): 888–904. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24172. Cite
Couldry, Nick, and Ulises A. Mejias. “Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject.” Television & New Media 20, no. 4 (2019): 336–49. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476418796632. Cite
Thylstrup, Nanna Bonde. The Politics of Mass Digitization. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2019. Cite
Tworek, Heidi. News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945. Harvard Historical Studies 190. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2019. Cite
Sarkar, Sreela. “A Mission to Converge for Inclusion? The Smart City and the Women of Seelampur.” Media, Culture & Society, 2019, 016344371881090. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443718810905. Cite
Parikka, Jussi. “A Care Worthy of Its Time.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, Online. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-f2acf72c-a469-49d8-be35-67f9ac1e3a60/section/38b93cc9-3b58-4bcf-a444-04bcdaf322ee#ch44. Cite
Olson, D., J. Meyerson, M. A. Parsons, J. Castro, M. Lassere, D. J. Wright, H. Arnold, et al. “Information Maintenance as a Practice of Care,” 2019. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3236409. Cite
Steinberg, Marc. The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Cite
Plantin, Jean-Christophe, and Aswin Punathambekar. “Digital Media Infrastructures: Pipes, Platforms, and Politics.” Media, Culture & Society 41, no. 2 (2019): 163–74. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443718818376. Cite
Losh, Elizabeth. “Home Inspection: Mina Rees and National Computing Infrastructure.” First Monday 23, no. 3 (March 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v23i3.8282. Cite
Herb, Ulrich, and Joachim Schöpfel, eds. Open Divide: Critical Studies on Open Access. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press, 2018. Cite
Finn, Megan. Documenting Aftermath: Information Infrastructures in the Wake of Disasters. Infrastructures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/documenting-aftermath. Cite
Gray, Jonathan. “Three Aspects of Data Worlds.” Krisis 2018, no. 1 (2018): 4–13. https://krisis.eu/three-aspects-of-data-worlds/. Cite
Williamson, Ben. “The Hidden Architecture of Higher Education: Building a Big Data Infrastructure for the ‘Smarter University.’” International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 15, no. 12 (2018). https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1186/s4123. Cite
Mattern. “Local Codes: Forms of Spatial Knowledge.” Public Knowledge, 2018. https://publicknowledge.sfmoma.org/local-codes-forms-of-spatial-knowledge. Cite
Koepnick, Lutz. “Koepnick Discusses Painting by Corinne Wasmuht.” Department of German, Russian and East European Studies, Vanderbilt University, 2018. https://as.vanderbilt.edu/grees/news/features/Koepnick_Wasmuth.php. Cite
Poirier, Lindsay. “Devious Design: Digital Infrastructure Challenges for Experimental Ethnography.” Design Issues 33, no. 2 (2017): 70–83. https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00440. 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
Ruby, Ilka, and Andreas Ruby. Infrastructure Space. Berlin: Ruby Press, 2017. Cite
Dourish, Paul. The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2017. Cite
Offenhuber, Dietmar. Waste Is Information: Infrastructure Legibility and Governance. Infrastructures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/waste-information. Cite
Smithies, James. “Towards a Systems Analysis of the Humanities.” In The Digital Humanities and the Digital Modern, 113–51. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 2017. https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137499431. Cite
Bornstein, Aaron M. “Are Algorithms Building the New Infrastructure of Racism?” Nautilus, no. December 21, 2017 (2017). http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/are-algorithms-building-the-new-infrastructure-of-racism. Cite
Sundaram, Ravi. “The Postcolonial City in India. From Planning to Information?” Techniques and Culture 67 (2017). Cite
Harvey, Penelope, Casper Bruun Jensen, and Atsuro Morita. Infrastructures and Social Complexity: A Companion. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1365291. Cite
Cantrell, Bradeley E. Responsive Landscapes: Strategies for Responsive Technologies in Landscape Architecture. S.l.: Routledge, 2017. Cite
Mattern, Shannon. “A City Is Not a Computer.” Places Journal, 2017. https://doi.org/10.22269/170207. Cite
Karasti, Helena, Florence Millerand, Christine M Hine, and Geoffrey C. Bowker. “Knowledge Infrastructures: Part I.” Science & Technology Studies 29, no. 1 (2016): 2–12. https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.55406. Cite
Drulhe, Louise. “Critical Atlas of Internet,” 2016. https://louisedrulhe.fr/internet-atlas/. Cite
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