Sökning: "Infrastructuring"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Infrastructuring.
1. The labour of infrastructuring : An inquiry into participatory design in the public sector
Sammanfattning : Every organisation, cooperation, project or social movement is quintessentially a cluster of alignments between people, places and things. Through these alignments, networks are made, and through these networks action can be made possible or be constricted. LÄS MER
2. Media Technologies in the Making : User-driven Software and Infrastructures for Computer Graphics Production
Sammanfattning : Over the past few decades there have emerged greater possibilities for users and consumers of media to create or engage in the creation of digital media technologies. This PhD dissertation explores the ways in which the broadening of possibilities for making technologies, specifically software, has been taken advantage of by new producers of digital culture – freelancers, aspiring digital media creators and small studios – in the production of digital visual media. LÄS MER
3. Designing Community Economies : Exploring Alternatives for Infrastructuring Food Waste Activism
Sammanfattning : By drawing on past CSCW and SHCI scholarship engaged with how technology can support the collaborative work of organising activism and empowering people to respond to diverse sustainability challenges– my research contributes to the emerging field of digital civics by introducing the human geography concept ‘community economies’ as a new way to frame and determine the scope of the design of digital technologies for infrastructuring food waste activism. Using a combination of ethnographic research and participatory action research (PAR), the empirical data were collected through two long-term collaborations with food-sharing communities in Denmark and Sweden and through a collaboration with researchers on a related project that focused on a food-sharing community in Germany. LÄS MER
4. Förflutenhet för alla? : Digitalt deltagande som metod för demokratisk kulturarvsproduktion
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the participatory production of cultural heritage and its regulation by institutional information structures in digital settings. The thesis combines perspectives from the scholarly fields of information studies, cultural heritage studies and cultural memory studies. LÄS MER
5. The reality-producing dynamics of the mobile phone in Uganda
Sammanfattning : The expectations and visions of the mobile phone in a development context is vast. International development institutions such as the World Bank, World Summit of the Information Society and International Telecommunication Union together with business conglomerates Google and Facebook have all invested their perspectives and visions of how the information and technology community should unfold in Uganda. LÄS MER