infrastructure

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

sociologist

innovator in the field of

information infrastructure

information theory

Science and Technology Studies (STS)

sociology

standardization

STS scholar

historian

is inseparable from one's relationship to it-- to many people traversing a building, a flight of stairs is infrastructure, while to the person in a wheelchair it is an impediment.

ecological,' part of 'the balance of action, tools, and the built environment' underpinning organized social practice. Star highlights the exercise of structural power here, emphasizing that the very definition of infrastructure is inseparable from one's relationship to it-- to many people traversing a building, a flight of stairs is infrastructure, while to the person in a wheelchair it is an impediment. As with other scholars of socio-technological systems, Star defines infrastructure very broadly-- a tendency that, as we shall see, has proven highly generative in allowing researchers to draw useful connections between diverse artifacts and layers of social activity. (Connected Viewing: Selling, Streaming, & Sharing Media in the Digital Age By Jennifer Holt, Kevin Sanson 124-5)

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