Infrastructure Studies
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JC Plantin et al.:
"Infrastructure studies .. have focused on analyzing essential, widely shared sociotechnical systems. Using case studies ranging from electric power grids (Hughes, 1983) to communication networks (Graham and Marvin, 2001) to scientific “cyberinfrastructures” (Edwards et al., 2007), this school of thought has highlighted key features of infrastructure such as ubiquity, reliability, invisibility, gateways, and breakdown."
More Information
- Article: Plantin JC. Lagoze C., Edwards P., Sandvig C., (2016) “Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook,” New Media & Society. Pre-publication version, August 2016