The Politics of Open Infrastructures: Power, Governance, and Justice in Digital Knowledge Systems
By
Renée Ridgway
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Summary
This volume examines how openness is designed, governed, contested, and lived within contemporary digital knowledge infrastructures. It argues that infrastructures such as open source software, internet standards, citizen science platforms, public sector data systems, and alternative computing practices are not neutral technical backbones but deeply political arrangements that embed values, distribute power, and shape whose knowledge counts. The work brings together scholars from science and technology studies, critical data studies, media studies, organization studies, and arts-based research to explore the politics embedded in open infrastructures.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledinfrastructures are never neutral technical backbones
They are deeply political arrangements that embed values, distribute power and shape whose knowledge counts
openness is designed, governed, contested and lived in contemporary digital knowledge infrastructures
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