#infrastructurestudies — Public Fediverse posts

does anyone in (critical human) geography have thoughts about the origins of "infrastructure studies" in your field? would you say there's been an "infrastructural turn"? what kicked it off, when?

#InfrastructureStudies #geography #academicChatter

"What if we could start over and build the Internet from scratch? How could it be rebuilt or reimagined as more equitable and just? ... Paris critically examines the myriad and contradictory promises, utility, and obstacles to building a completely new Internet.

Radical Infrastructure locates and analyzes the boundaries of how people and groups imagine, build, deploy, maintain, and use the Internet as they survive—and even dare to thrive—in challenging political, economic, and environmental contexts. Ultimately, Paris encourages active reflection among scholars, policymakers, and activists and reveals more grounded imaginaries, tactics, and opportunities for future people-centered projects"

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/radical-infrastructure/paper

#OpenAccess #InternetStudies #Bookstodon #Commodon #InfrastructureStudies #RadicalInfrastructure #STS

🛢️ 📦 📻 New instance, new #introduction, many hashtags. Hi! I'm an #STS #technopolitics scholar, also thinking w #anthropology #geography #EnvHist #Commodon

This is my non-chattery account for research updates, topics may include:
#feministSTS #multispecies #anticolonial #California #trucks #internet #port #SupplyChain #MediaActivism #labor #FreeRadio #CommunityMedia #SoundStudies #soundscapes #ClimateCrisis #LowPower #LosAngeles #oil #InfrastructureStudies #CriticalLogistics #Radio #FOSS #hacking #Energy #ToxicLA

For anyone interested in #InfrastructureStudies or #CriticalDigitalInfrastructure, this is a fantastic article by Daniel Smith, Ash Kyd, Michael Reid (no relation) and Tim Leslie for the #ABC, uncovering the underwater #fibre #networking cables that provide #internet to Australians, and how they intersect with regional #geopolitics.

There are broader questions here about national capability and technological inter-dependence on other countries

But for me, it was another reminder of how much of our #infrastructure is hidden, unseen, yet able to shape our everyday lives. Surfacing hidden infrastructures helps us think critically about who's shaping those infrastructures, and for what purpose.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-06/the-cloud-under-the-sea/103137378

First day of teaching at @KAEEGoetheUni in the new semester was great, met many excited faces, interested in leaning about #sts, #environmentalSTS, #environmentalAnthropology, #infrastructureStudies, #digitalSTS. Yeah! Looking forward to the rest of the week.

Experienced a remarkable uptick in hallway chatter and coffee making while the IT department was trying to bring the mailserver back up. Made me re-read a bit of Susan Leigh-Star.

#InfrastructureStudies #STS

"loud men talking loudly: exclusionary cultures of internet governance" - new research from @C__CS + critical infrastructure lab on intersecting dynamics of exclusion at Internet Engineering Task Force: https://www.criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LoudMen-CorinneCath-CriticalInfraLab.pdf

#criticalinfralab #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #sts #scienceandtechnologystudies #commodon

Next week back at Sciences Po, Paris with @lbngr for a talk on "repurposing digital media for collective inquiry", reflecting on 6 years of projects and activities with the @publicdatalab: https://jonathangray.org/2023/03/24/medialab-talk

It will be first time back since Bruno Latour died last year, which is still sinking in (gathering pieces here: https://www.are.na/jonathan-gray/remembering-bruno ... )

#STS #datastudies #infrastructurestudies #paris #digitalmethods #participatoryresearch #collectiveinquiry #newmediastudies #newmedia #commodon #scienceandtechnologystudies #ecology #criticalzones

Looking forward to workshop with @rra next Thu 6th April 2023 on “Infrastructuring alternatives: Mastodon, the Fediverse and beyond” at @kingsdh. If you're around in London there are still a few places left: https://jonathangray.org/2023/03/14/infrastructuring-alternatives

cc @siusoon @anthropologist @__nate__ @jamessmithies @ayliu @dv #london #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #mastodon #fediverse #socialmedia #fediverse #feministsts #infrastructuring #commodon #newmediastudies #newmedia #mediastudies #federation #interoperability #alternativesocialmedia

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"data not found", “a dataset of datasets that were sought but not found on data portals around the world”: https://datanotfound.jwyg.org

created as part of research for “What do data portals do? Tracing the politics of online devices for making data public”: https://jonathangray.org/2023/03/30/data-portals

#datastudies #opendata #datainfrastructures #sts #infrastructurestudies #newmediastudies #commondon #softwarestudies #interfacestudies @sts @publicdatalab

We’re looking forward to hosting Roel Roscam Abbing @rra (Malmö University) for a workshop on "Infrastructuring alternatives: Mastodon, the Fediverse and beyond" on 6th April. Further details here: https://kingsdh.net/2023/03/14/infrastructuring-alternatives/

#fediverse #mastodon #london #infrastructurestudies #infrastructuring #infrastructure #socialmedia #alternatives #criticalinfrastructurestudies

Much good stuff on data centres and infrastructure, time, labour, waste, heat, energy, bunkers, cables, environments and colonialism in this NM&S special issue on "data centers and the infrastructural temporalities of digital media":
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/25/2

#datastudies #infrastructurestudies #data #commodon #mediastudies #ecology #environment #colonialism #labour #work #time #temporality #newmedia

Looking forward to visiting Berlin for a fellowship and workshop on "Environmental Data, Media, and the Humanities" in May - focusing on repurposing forest media: https://jonathangray.org/2023/02/22/berlin-fellowship

@maximilian @lbngr
@dh_potsdam

#berlin #sts #datastudies #mediaart #digitalmethods #ecologies #feministsts #infrastructurestudies #internetstudies #newmedia #digitalculture #commodon #platformstudies #softwarestudies
#algorithmstudies #art #climatechange #commons #compost #criticaldatastudies #criticaltechnicalpractice #datapractices #datastudies #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ecology #forests #formats #freesoftware #newmediaart #newmediastudies #soundscapes #environmentalhumanities

"..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
https://datasociety.net/library/amazons-trickle-down-monopoly/

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

"If you understand Amazon as an aspiring megascale infrastructure company — a provider of systems, services, capacity, and labor — its junkification makes sense. Amazon hasn’t been acting like a store for a while. In its ideal future, selling things to people is everyone else’s problem. And so is Amazon."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/why-does-it-feel-like-amazon-is-making-itself-worse.html

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing

Festive reminders from "project sustainable cloud" ☁️☀️
> 1. delete the data
> 2. pull the plug
> 3. offline more often
> 4. there's enough time
> ...
http://www.projectsustainable.cloud/

#climatechange #energy #sustainability #cloud #cloudcomputing #solar #solarpunk #infrastructurestudies #infrastructure #selfhosted #selfhosting #nonhosting #permacomputing #lowtech #notech #offline #merrychristmas

Research data repositories have worked to ensure data quality for decades. They are important infrastructures that enable data sharing and reuse - but what do they mean by "data quality assurance", and what practices have they adopted?

My colleague @Maxi and I from the project re3data COREF have just published the first systematic study on the topic, based on a survey among repository operators.
http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2022-018

#infrastructureStudies #dataStudies #openScience

Some key findings:

Yes! to this question by @inquiline:

I keep thinking of Be The #Algorithm in the not-too-distant historical context of Be The Media. Who's writing this?

#The80s #The90s analog #MutualAid #Indymedia help us understand #mastodon #OpenSource vs #BirdSite #poptimism conundrum:

#wfmu #freeform #CollegeRadio #zines #IndieRecordLabels #Cassette #CassetteUnderground #comics #comix
->
#Usenet #BBS #TheWELL #EchoNYC

#Commodon #InfrastructureStudies
https://mastodon.social/@inquiline/109414515340610793

Have been feeling inspired after doing some work assembling communities that I'm really interested in - thought I'd do a tag dump for some of the areas that I'm looking into, as well as have already found super interesting, have been following and am boosting... (not in alphabetical order and probably too broad but for my own future reference also!)

#Tag heap:

#Abolition #ACAB #ADHD #Affect #AffectStudies #AntiImperialism #AntiColonialism #AntiRacism #Archiving #Archives #Art #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #Boardgames #ClimateChange #Coffee #Commons #CriticalTheory #CinemaStudies #Communities #CulturalStudies #Decolonisation #Design #Disabled #DigitalCommons #DigitalCulture #DigitalCultures #DigitalHumanities #DigitalTechnologies #DigiModernism #Diversity #EDI #EnglishLiterature #Feminism #Feministsts #FilmStudies #FreeSoftware #Games #Gaming #Geopolitics #Geography #Hauntology #HCI #HumanComputerInteraction
#HigherEd #HigherEducation #History #Histodians #Incarceration #Inclusion #InfrastructureStudies #InternetStudies #London #LowTech #Media #MediaStudies #Museum #Museums #Musicals #OpenPedagogy #ParticipatoryDesign #Pedagogy #PoliceAbolition #Philosophy #Photography #Praxis #Prisons #PrisonAbolition #Preservation #Progressive #Politics #Postmodernism #PublicEducation
#Running #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #SocialInclusion #SocialMobility #SocialTheory #Socialism #SocialJustice #Sociology #Sociodon #Sociodons #Solidarity #SoftwareStudies #SoundScapes #Skeuomorphism #SpeculativeFiction #STS #Technology #Trans #UK #VanLife #VideoGames #University #Zines

Also I suppose really this is a second #Introduction after the #TwitterMigration as I'm still relatively #NewHere so... Hi again! Feel free to follow or boost if this sounds like your areas of interest also

Presenting this paper today, and so #selfpromotion here too!

Sedimentary Legacy and the Disturbing Recurrence of the Human in Ecological Science

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127221101171

#STS #ecology #infrastructurestudies

In early days, ecologists defined nature as ‘pristine’, then changed their mind; but now struggle to investigate 'socioecology' because of old infrastructure.

The point: Legacy infrastructures are enabling and constraining at once. They can change, but only slowly and never wholly.

Presenting this to the ‘anthropogenic soils’ group
https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/research/collaboratories/anthropogenic-soils.html

Sedimentary Legacy and the Disturbing Recurrence of the Human in Ecology...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127221101171

Story: In early days, ecologists defined nature as ‘pristine’, then changed their mind, but now struggle to investigate 'socioecology' because of old decisions.

Theory: Legacy infrastructures are enabling and constraining at once. They can change, but only slowly and never wholly.

#STS #ecology #infrastructurestudies

I haven't done an #introduction yet, so here goes:
I am a cultural anthropologist currently working on #environmentalstudies and #infrastructurestudies. I am focusing on (former) wetland landscapes in Belgrade, Serbia, and their transformation through infrastructure development over the past century.
In my previous research project, I examined #property relations, #labor, and #class in a worker-owned company in Croatia.

I did a podcast!

My hosts gave it the title ‘Research Infrastructure and the Long-Now’

Apparently I discuss sustaining infrastructure across decades, and across scientific change (ontological and epistemological).

(It sure sounds like me, but the actual moments of speaking are a blur)

https://isdigest.buzzsprout.com/1529204/11692020-research-infrastructure-and-the-long-now-guest-david-ribes

My generous host & interviewer was Prof. Casandra Grundstrom at the NTNU University in Trondheim, Norway.

#STS #infrastructurestudies #longnow #podcast

my work explores the role of data in reproducing social inequalities, especially now that we use AI. I have also studied the use of digital technologies in citizen science.

more at: https://marisaponti.org/

tag heap: #datapractices #datastudies #infrastructurestudies #participatorydesign #scienceandtechnologystudies #AIforsocialgood #Citizengenerateddata #collectiveintelligence