Thinking infrastructures /

• Other Authors: Kornberger, Martin (Editor), Bowker, Geoffrey C. (Editor), Elyachar, Julia (Editor), Mennicken, Andrea (Editor), Miller, Peter (Editor), Nucho, Joanne Randa (Editor), Pollock, Neil (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
• Series: Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 17.
• Subjects: Knowledge management.; Decision making.; Business & Economics, Infrastructure.; Sociology: work & labour.

This volume introduces the notion of Thinking Infrastructures to explore a broad range of phenomena that structure attention, shape decision-making, and guide cognition: Thinking Infrastructures configure entities (via tracing, tagging), organise knowledge (via search engines), sort things out (via...

Table of Contents:

• Prelims
• Introduction to thinking infrastructures
• Part I: Valuing
• Chapter 1 Assembling calculative infrastructures
• Chapter 2 A calculative infrastructure in the making: the emergence of a multi-layered complex for governing healthcare
• Chapter 3 Calculative infrastructure for hospitals: governing medical practices and health expenditures through a pricing payment system
• Chapter 4 Prospective sensemaking and thinking infrastructures in a large-scale humanitarian crisis
• Part II: Tracing
• Chapter 5 Infrastructures of traceability
• Chapter 6 Capitalization by certification: creating information-based assets through the establishment of an identification infrastructure
• Chapter 7 Indexal thinking - reconfiguring global topologies for market-based intervention
• Chapter 8 Performing apparatus: infrastructures of valuation in hospitality
• Part III: Governing markets
• Chapter 9 Thinking transparency in European securitization: repurposing the market's information infrastructures
• Chapter 10 Thinking market infrastructure: barcode scanning in the us grocery retail sector, 1967-2010
• Chapter 11 Thinking infrastructure and the organization of markets: the creation of a legal market for cannabis in Colorado
• Chapter 12 Smart grids and smart markets: the promises and politics of intelligent infrastructures
• Chapter 13 From matchmaking to boundary making: thinking infrastructures and decentring digital platforms in the sharing economy
• Part IV: Infrastructuring society
• Chapter 14 Social media and the infrastructuring of sociality
• Chapter 15 A communication perspective on the fabric of thinking infrastructure: the case of social media analytics
• Chapter 16 Infrastructuring as bricolage: thinking like a contemporary knowledge worker
• Chapter 17 Designing infrastructure for the poor: transactions within unstable ecologies
• Chapter 18 Infrastructuration: on habits, norms and routines as elements of infrastructure
• Index.