Infrastructural Inaccessibility

Bjørn, Pernille; Boulus-Rødje, Nina

doi:10.1145/3219777

Cited by 29 publications

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“…A considerable body of work (e.g. [4,6,15,27,41]) has highlighted the contradictions between the notion that hacking and making is a form of resistance to dominant political and socio-technical ideologies and the practices of many makerspaces being oriented towards innovation and enterprise. Indeed, there have been recent calls to bring back to the fore the hacker, repair, recycle and ecological orientation of makerspaces (e.g.…”

Section: Platforming As a Practice Of Maker Environmentalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making at the Margins

Vyas

Vines

2019

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Making at the Margins: Making in a Resource-constrained e-Waste Recycling Centre HCI 1 and CSCW literature has extensively studied a wide variety of maker cultures. In this paper, we focus on understanding what making is like for people and communities who do not have access to advanced technological infrastructures. We report on six-month-long ethnographic fieldwork at a non-profit, resource-constrained, e-waste recycling centre that engages members from a low socioeconomic status (SES) community in making activities. Our findings show that making in such a setting is shaped by local economic and social factors in a resource-constrained environment and highlight how this community engages in a wide range of making activities. In describing these making activities, we emphasize how making was conducted to purposely enable ongoing and future making by others; promoted the wellbeing and skill development of centre members; and was socially-engaged to address concerns in the local community. We conclude by discussing how such type of making contributes a new understanding of maker culture, one that is appreciative of resource-constraints, integrates different sources of value, and is embedded in local place.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing ~ Field Studies • Human-centred computing~ Ethnographic studies

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Section: Platforming As a Practice Of Maker Environmentalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making at the Margins

Vyas

Vines

2019

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…Tracing the development of people and things offers glimpses into the mechanisms through which they become blackboxed or stabilized as various actors recruit and are recruited into wider semiotic systems. Second, as the flipside to this process, I identified disruptions and breakdowns (Latour, 2005) that can help to uncover the invisible infrastructures (Bjørn & Boulus-Rødje, 2018) in social and workplace practices.…”

Section: Mobile Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Engaged in a reflexive process, I brought together a number of sensitizing concepts from two distinct areas. First, I turned to research (Bjørn & Boulus-Rødje, 2018) on the Palestinian high-tech industry and ways that entrepreneurs struggled with “infrastructural inaccessibility” or “critical infrastructures that are otherwise invisible and go unnoticed.” This research foregrounded how Palestinian tech entrepreneurship is characterized by “missing infrastructures related to mobility, legal frameworks, payment gateways, and mobile internet” (p. 1). Taking up these dimensions, I traced the trajectories of entrepreneurial actors, identifying key moments of friction or disruptions that resulted from these missing infrastructures.…”

Section: Mobile Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Digital products were not subject to the same restrictions as physical products, having the potential to more freely travel beyond the area’s tightly controlled borders. With the possibility of “bypassing physical check points, metal detectors, roadblocks, and soldiers,” tech start-up investments in the IT sector hence offered more promise of developing “semi-economic independence and self-sufficiency” (Bjørn & Bourlus-Rødje, 2018, p. 9).…”

Section: Case 2: the City Of Rawabi As A State In The Makingmentioning

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Unsettling Start-Up Ecosystems: Geographies, Mobilities, and Transnational Literacies in the Palestinian Start-Up Ecosystem

Fraiberg

2020

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

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Scholars within the field of technical and professional communication (TPC) have called for situating the field in wider social, cultural, political, and global contexts. Despite a growing body of scholarship in this area, less attention has been focused on ways these issues are bound up in 21st-century global innovation and start-up ecosystems. This article addresses these issues by examining case studies of three high-tech initiatives in an emerging start-up ecosystem within the Occupied Palestinian Territory. In making this move, the research offers a theoretical and methodological framework for examining global innovation systems as they are constructed, enacted, maintained, extended, and transformed. Arguing for attention to the links between space and the politics of mobility, the author specifically examines the interplay of literacies, identities, technologies, mobilities, geographies, and practices.

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“…Here, issues of power and privilege come into play, and these are closely tied to formal roles and the ways in which structures and practices are enacted in the collaborative work 38 . For example, the physical location of one's body relative to where the work is performed 39 or its hierarchical position 2 in the collaborative work matter for how one perceives the role of cooperative technologies and sociotechnical infrastructures 40 and how these should support the people and practices within GSD. In addition, the experience of entering global collaborative work is significantly different for those workers who are hired on the basis of the global premise in comparison with those who have been working in co‐located IT projects for decades.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Implicit bias and negative stereotyping in global software development and why it is time to move on!

Matthiesen

Bjørn

Trillingsgaard³

2022

J Software Evolu Process

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Prior research documents how the use of national cultural differences when used as an argument for failed collaboration is problematic and makes information technology (IT) companies blind to the challenges in global software development (GSD). Nevertheless, we still witness how issues in GSD work are kept explained, applied, and predicted through generic descriptions of national cultural behavior. Based on two ethnographic studies conducted within two large Danish IT companies, we extend prior work on implicit bias. The paper presents empirical examples on the widespread practice of using racist and stereotypical rhetoric in GSD, which initially motivated us to look for alternative strategies for analyzing the actual and locally situated collaboration‐related problems within organizations involved in GSD. Our contributions are threefold: (1) We show how the widespread practice of using negative stereotypical rhetoric is weaved into the fabric of GSD engagements; (2) we present the empirical results of attending to implicit bias as an approach to explore and combat pervasive practices that deploy static cultural narratives and stereotypes in GSD; and (3) we propose three areas in GSD that software organizations should investigate to identify and address the implicit biases that potentially challenge or shatter their distributed collaborative work.

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Infrastructural Inaccessibility

Cited by 29 publications

References 49 publications

Making at the Margins

Making at the Margins

Unsettling Start-Up Ecosystems: Geographies, Mobilities, and Transnational Literacies in the Palestinian Start-Up Ecosystem

Implicit bias and negative stereotyping in global software development and why it is time to move on!

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