Thinking Infrastructures

Martin Kornberger, EM Lyon, France and WU Vienna, Austria Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine, USA Julia Elyachar, Princeton University, USA Andrea Mennicken, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Peter Miller, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Joanne Randa Nucho, Pomona College, Claremont, California, USA Neil Pollock, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK

Sociologists explore the notion of thinking infrastructures to refer to a broad range of phenomena such as rankings, ratings, and algorithms that structure attention, shape decision making, and guide cognition. In sections on valuing, tracing, governing markets, and infrastructure society, they consider such topics as prospective sensemaking and thinking infrastructure in a large-scale humanitarian crisis, performing apparatus: infrastructures of valuation in hospitality, smart grids and smart markets: the promises and politics of intelligent infrastructures, a communication perspective on the fabric of thinking infrastructure: the case of social media analytics, and designing infrastructure for the poor: transactions within unstable ecologies.

• Introduction Thinking Infrastructures; Geoffrey Bowker, Julia Elyachar, Martin Kornberger, Andrea Mennicken, Peter Miller, Joanne Randa Nucho and Neil Pollock Part 1: Valuing  Chapter 1. Assembling Calculative Infrastructures; Liisa Kurunmäki, Andrea Mennicken and Peter Miller Chapter 2. A Calculative Infrastructure in the Making: The Emergence of a Multi-Layered Complex for Governing Healthcare; Jacob Reilley and Tobias Scheytt Chapter 3. Calculative Infrastructure for Hospitals. Governing Medical Practices and Health Expenditures Through A Pricing Payment System; Pierre-André Juven Chapter 4. Prospective Sensemaking and Thinking Infrastructures in a Large-Scale Humanitarian Crisis; Marian Konstantin Gatzweiler and Matteo Ronzani Part 2: Tracing Chapter 5. Infrastructures of Traceability; Michael PowerChapter 6. Capitalisation by Certification: Creating Information-Based Assets Through the Establishment of an Identification Infrastructure; Yuval Millo, Nikiforos Panourgias and Markos Zachariadis Chapter 7. Regulatory Ranking - Reconfiguring Global Topologies of Actorhood for Market-Based Intervention; Afshin Mehrpouya and Rita Samiolo Chapter 8. Performing Apparatus: Infrastructures of Valuation in Hospitality; Wanda J. Orlikowski and Susan V. Scott Part 3: Governing Markets Chapter 9. Thinking Transparency in European Securitisation: Repurposing the Market's Information Infrastructures; Antonios Kaniadakis and Amany Elbanna Chapter 10. Enacting a Digital Market Infrastructure in the US Grocery Retail Sector, 1967-2010; Hans Kjellberg, Johan Hagberg and Franck Cochoy Chapter 11. Thinking Infrastructure and The Organisation of Markets: The Creation of a Legal Market for Cannabis in Colorado; Dane Pflueger, Tommaso Palermo and Daniel Martinez Chapter 12. Smart Grids and Smart Markets. The Promises and Politics of Intelligent Infrastructures; Andreas Folkers Chapter 13. Thinking Infrastructures and Decentering Digital Platforms in the Sharing Economy: From Matchmaking to Boundary Making; Roser Pujadas and Daniel Curto-Millet Part 4: Infra-structuring Society Chapter 14. Social Media and The Infrastructuring of Sociality; Cristina Alaimo and Jannis KallinikosChapter 15. A Communication Perspective on The Fabric of Thinking Infrastructure: The Case of Social Media Analytics; François Lambotte Chapter 16.  Infrastructuring as Bricolage: Thinking Like a Contemporary Knowledge Worker; Ingrid Erickson and Steven Sawyer Chapter 17. Designing Infrastructure for the Poor: Transactions Within Unstable Ecologies; Céline Cholez and Pascale Trompette Chapter 18. Infrastructuration: On Habits, Norms, and Routines as Elements of Infrastructure; Paul Edwards