<div dir="ltr">Dear all, I just wanted to thank you for sending in these great resources for infrastructure studies - I came across the term "critical infrastructure studies" a couple months ago and got quite excited about how it seemed more expansive and more useful for describing my projects on labs and the pre-history of the internet than either "media archaeology" or just "media studies." But now I wonder what the extra "critical" denotes since there's a somewhat well established field already of I.S.? Any thoughts?<div><br></div><div>yours, Lori</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Paul N. Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pne@umich.edu" target="_blank">pne@umich.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dag, here’s a partial list. I’ll be curious to hear what others might add.<div><br></div><div>Bowker & Star, <i>Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences</i></div><div><br></div><div>Simon & Marvin, <i>Splintering Urbanism — </i>kind of a giant lit review, mostly focused on urban physical infrastructure but with some attention to digital</div><div><br></div><div>Edwards, <a href="http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/vastmachine/index.html" target="_blank">A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming</a></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Edwards et al., <a href="http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/ui.pdf" target="_blank">Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and Design</a> (NSF report with some lit review)</div><div><br></div><div>Starosielski, <i>The Undersea Network</i></div><div><br></div><div>Check the books in my <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/infrastructures" target="_blank"><i>Infrastructures</i> book series</a>, co-edited with Geof Bowker - e.g. Larry Busch, <i>Standards: Recipes for Reality</i></div><div><br></div><div>Also <a href="https://www.academia.edu/27555302/Infrastructure_studies_meet_platform_studies_in_the_age_of_Google_and_Facebook" target="_blank">this very recent paper</a> on platforms vs. infrastructures - not sure it counts as “canonical”!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class=""><div>On Aug 22, 2016, at 16:20 , Dag Spicer <<a href="mailto:dspicer@computerhistory.org" target="_blank">dspicer@computerhistory.org</a>> wrote:</div><br></span><div><div><span class="">Can anyone suggest some canonical and effective texts in Infrastructure Studies?<br><br></span><span class="">Thanks!<br><br>Dag<br>--<br>Dag Spicer<br>Senior Curator<br>Computer History Museum<br>Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing<br>1401 North Shoreline Boulevard<br>Mountain View, CA 94043-1311<br><br>Tel: <a href="tel:%2B1%20650%20810%201035" value="+16508101035" target="_blank">+1 650 810 1035</a><br>Fax: <a href="tel:%2B1%20650%20810%201055" value="+16508101055" target="_blank">+1 650 810 1055</a><br><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>This email is relayed from members at <a href="http://sigcis.org" target="_blank">sigcis.org</a>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at <a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/" target="_blank">http://lists.sigcis.org/<wbr>pipermail/members-sigcis.org/</a> and you can change your subscription options at <a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org" target="_blank">http://lists.sigcis.org/<wbr>listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.<wbr>org</a><br></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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