Thinking Infrastructures How A Box Changes The Way We Think

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Synopsis

This volume introduces the notion of Thinking Infrastructures to explore a broad range of phenomena that structure attention, shape decision-making, and guide cognition: Thinking Infrastructures configure entities (via tracing, tagging), organise knowledge (via search engines), sort things out (via rankings and ratings), govern markets (via calculative practices, including algorithms), and configure preferences (via valuations such as recommender systems). Thus, Thinking Infrastructures, we collectively claim in this volume, inform and shape distributed and embodied cognition, including collective reasoning, structuring of attention and orchestration of decision-making.

Book details

Series:
Research in the Sociology of Organizations (Book 62)
Author:
Martin Kornberger, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Julia Elyachar, Andrea Mennicken, Peter Miller, Joanne Randa Nucho, Neil Pollock
ISBN:
9781787695597
Related ISBNs:
9781787695580, 9781787695573
Publisher:
Emerald Publishing Limited
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
18+
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2019-08-08
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2019
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Business and Finance, Nonfiction, Sociology