Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and Design

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Research Commentary - Digital Infrastructures: The Missing IS Research Agenda (2010, background): “To wit, infrastructures can best be comprehended by analyzing processes of embedding capabilities and standards in organizational practices, which enable new social behaviors and/or regulations (Edwards et al. 2007, pp. 5 and 6).”
Introduction: An Agenda for Infrastructure Studies (2009, unknown): “What results is a special issue that brings together leading scholars in the emergent field of infrastructure studies — authors whose collective insights sketch out the vitality of, and lay the groundwork for, this field.”
WeChat as infrastructure: the techno-nationalist shaping of Chinese digital platforms (2019, background): “Gateways are a sociotechnical component of strategic importance in the growth of infrastructure, as they provide the “plugs and sockets that allow new systems to be joined to an existing framework easily and with minimal constraint ” (Edwards et al., 2007, p. 16).”
Infrastructuring: Toward an Integrated Perspective on the Design and Use of Information Technology (2009, unknown): “…as well as scientific (E-Science/Cyberinfrastructure) application environments (Star and Ruhleder 1996, Törpel et al. 2003; Atkins 2003; Finholt 2004; Karasti and Baker 2004; Karasti and Syrjänen 2004; Lawrence 2006; Ribes and Finholt 2007; Zimmerman and Finholt 2007; Edwards et al. 2007).”