From Artefacts to Infrastructures

Monteiro, Eric; Pollock, Neil; Hanseth, Ole; Williams, Robin

doi:10.1007/s10606-012-9167-1

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“…(Karasti et al, 2006). The relevance of taking an information infrastructure perspective within CSCW is by now established (Monteiro et al, 2013;Ribes and Lee, 2010). Inspired by research in the Information Systems (IS) and Science and Technology Studies, Ribes and Lee (2010) point out that CSCW is well positioned to study infrastructures, but there is a need for a more detailed and systematic attention to this specific kind of computer-mediated collaborative work.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…as an important input to requirement specifications for cooperative technologies. In general CSCW has studied articulation work as limited to particular settings and timeframes of technology design and implementation (Monteiro et al, 2013). Our case represents in fact an effort to address the information infrastructure that unfolds "behind the scenes" of a situated reality.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…6 Discussion: Articulation work, revisited Monteiro et al (2013) state that researchers in CSCW should focus more on how order is produced and maintained for the large-scale and integrated working settings, or information infrastructures. The design and development of a crossorganizational system for real-time environmental risk prevention in Integrated Operations (as is the case for the EnviroTime project) requires that a level of order is indeed achieved across a distributed oil and gas organization (NorthOil).…”

Section: Enacting: Representing the Subsea On The Desktopmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(Heyer, 2009;Rolland et al, 2006). Moreover, the analysis of articulation practices has often been centered on the artifact (Monteiro et al, 2013). We instead adopt an infrastructural inversion (Bowk-er, 1994) to disclose a specific type of articulation work made of the coordinated practices that scaffold and adapt the information infrastructure as a whole.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Of Corals and Web Portals: Towards a Digital Representation of Risk for the Cold-Water Corals in the Oil and Gas Sector

Parmiggiani¹

2014

COOP 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 27-30 May 2014, Nice (France

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Abstract. Integrated Operations in the oil and gas industry depend on highly cooperative yet computer-mediated and distributed workflows across complex information infrastructures. In particular, offshore operations rely heavily on digital technologies to gain remote access to subsea oil or natural gas fields, and are at the same time subject to strict requirements by authorities to prevent pollution in the marine environment. Operators are consequently dependent on models and representations to assess and predict environmental risk. However, the heterogeneous disciplines operating a field cannot count on a shared perspective on environmental risk as their activities span across organizational and political boundaries. We present a case study from a Norwegian oil and gas company that is developing a set of tools and methodologies for providing heterogeneous users with awareness of the risk for the cold-water coral reefs off the coasts of Norway. In particular, we focus on the articulation work carried on to let representations and models compensate for the inevitable lack of shared awareness of environmental risk while at the same time fit the existing sociotechnical infrastructure. We discuss actors' strategies to foreground the infrastructure by: (1) bootstrapping the environmental data; (2) mediating with the existing corporate infrastructure; and (3) enacting the subsea context for operators.

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Of Corals and Web Portals: Towards a Digital Representation of Risk for the Cold-Water Corals in the Oil and Gas Sector

Parmiggiani¹

2014

COOP 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 27-30 May 2014, Nice (France

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“…I will discuss the O&G exploration process as an on-going naturalisation process of interpretations that is constructed collaboratively. I will show how interpretations are shaped and moulded over "different contexts over extended periods of time" (E. Monteiro et al 2012), or to frame it otherwise, through "asynchronous remote collaboration" (Cabitza & Simone 2013), involving several geoscientists and different geoscientific disciplines as "competent actors reflecting" (Prilla et al 2013) on historical interpretations, continuously refining them. An obvious challenge here is to locate relevant data in a vast amount of data, a process that is performed by people and multitude of search and database tools.…”

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A Case Study of an Information Infrastructure Supporting Knowledge Work in Oil and Gas Exploration

Mikalsen

2014

COOP 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 27-30 May 2014, Nice (France

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It is well rehearsed in the fields of CSCW and IS that the relationship between the social and the material is bi-directional and shaped locally. But what happens when knowledge work is stretched across space and time, and the practice of today relies on actions and reflections done elsewhere and at different times? This paper presents an on-going case study of oil and gas exploration that takes steps to shed light on this emerging issue. I argue the relevance of framing the process of generating interpretations in oil and gas exploration in terms of information infrastructures. The case is representative for other cases where practitioners´ reflections cannot immediately be confirmed by empirical observation. Through a discussion on the concepts of coordination and accumulation across the dimensions of space and time, I outline how an able information infrastructure in this domain must balance the dualism of the concepts of naturalisation and historification.

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Assembling narratives: Tensions in collaborative construction of knowledge

Khazraee

2018

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Scientific and scholarly research is heterogeneous in that divergent viewpoints, and different interests must be brought together to achieve coherent accounts of research. The tensions caused by this multiplicity of interests and singularity of output frame most collaborative research practice. The goal of present study is to identify areas of tension in such collaborative and heterogeneous efforts. To this end, the present study investigates the co‐construction of archeological narrative at one of the largest multinational archeological campaigns in the world, the Çatalhöyük project in Turkey. This study conceptualizes archeological narratives as epistemic assemblages. Following Actor Network theorists, the archeological process is conceptualized as a series of translation processes (of heterogeneous engineering) that inscribe the found material remains of archeological investigation into a narrative. This complex process takes place within a heterogeneous sociotechnical network. This study decomposes this heterogeneous network to identify the areas of tension and struggle. Two sources of such tensions are identified as fragmentation and fault lines. Overcoming fragmentation and fault lines is key for the success of heterogeneous scientific work and maintaining productive scientific collaboration. The findings of this study have applications beyond archeology and can inform the design of cyberinfrastructure for heterogeneous collaborations.

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From Artefacts to Infrastructures

Cited by 168 publications

References 46 publications

Of Corals and Web Portals: Towards a Digital Representation of Risk for the Cold-Water Corals in the Oil and Gas Sector

Of Corals and Web Portals: Towards a Digital Representation of Risk for the Cold-Water Corals in the Oil and Gas Sector

A Case Study of an Information Infrastructure Supporting Knowledge Work in Oil and Gas Exploration

Assembling narratives: Tensions in collaborative construction of knowledge

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