The Long Now of Technology Infrastructure: Articulating Tensions in Development

By David Ribes, Thomas A. Finholt. Journal of the AIS, 2009

311 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

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In Computer Science Applications

1. Kateryna Kuksenok
2. Christian Sandvig
3. Paul N. Edwards

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Kateryna Kuksenok
2. David Ribes
3. Christian Sandvig
4. Thomas A. Finholt
5. Michael F. Goodchild
6. Paul N. Edwards
7. Jeanette Plantin
8. Thomas Poell

In Human-Computer Interaction

1. Kateryna Kuksenok
2. David Ribes
3. S. J. Jackson
4. Thomas A. Finholt
5. Paul N. Edwards

Citations in the corpus

• Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure: Past, present and future (2010, background): “…(d) the openness among people and domains will take time to be implemented from public debate to public policy (Wunsch-Vincent, Reynolds, & Wyckoff, 2008), and (e) how users view GCI and their willingness to contribute, take, and maintain a GCI will involve social dynamics (Ribes & Finholt, 2009).”
• Artifacts that organize: Delegation in the distributed organization (2013, background): “Such trends not only raise new research questions and require us to shift our empirical focus; they also demand that we rethink the relationship between organizations and technology.”
• Influence apart from Adoption: How Interaction between Programming and Scientific Practices Shapes Modes of Inquiry in Four Oceanography Teams (2016, methodology): “In a similar fashion that foregrounds software construction and data use in the study of scientific collaborations, Ribes and Finholt identify as a major tension in cyberinfrastructure development as the one between “respecting current work practices” and “transforming scientific practice” [54]: “.”
• Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook (2018, background): “…as work practices, individual habits, and organizational culture, as well as the ways an infrastructure can structurally exclude some people (e.g. deaf, blind, or wheelchair-bound individuals) from purportedly “universal” services (Lee et al., 2006; Ribes and Bowker, 2008; Ribes and Finholt, 2009).”