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1. Cover
2. Title page
3. Copyright
4. Table of Contents
5. Acknowledgements
6. Contributor Biographies
7. List of Illustrations
8. Introduction: The Politics of Open Digital Knowledge Infrastructures
   1. Astrid Mager, Katja Mayer, and Renée Ridgway
9. I. EARLY DAYS OF INTERNET OPENNESS
10. 1. Send Conservatively, Accept Liberally: Cultural Governance of Open Internet Standards
    1. Corinne Cath
11. 2. From Free Software to Open Source: Traversing the Terminologies, Values and Ethics of an Open Knowledge Infrastructure
    1. Renée Ridgway
12. 3. The Internet Infrastructure Has Never Been Open
    1. Niels ten Oever
13. II. OPENING GOVERNMENT DATA INFRASTRUCTURES
14. 4. Infrastructuring Openness: Austrian Practices and Politics of Opening Up Government Data
    1. Astrid Mager
15. 5. The Future of Urban Waste: From Closed Systems to Open Waste Data Infrastructure1
    1. Celina Strzelecka
16. 6. The Politics of Federated Protocols: Openness Organised through Digital Sovereignty
    1. Francesca Musiani
17. III. INCLUSIVE GOVERNANCE OF DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE INFRASTRUCTURES
18. 7. OpenEdition as a Governed Milieu: Towards an Ecological Understanding of Open Digital Knowledge Infrastructures
    1. Simon Dumas Primbault
19. 8. The Politics of Infrastructuring Inclusivity: DOAJ and its Ambassador Programme
    1. Ivonne Lujano Vilchis, Katrine Sundsbø, Ina Smith, and Joanna Ball
20. 9. Paradoxes of Openness: Power, Reciprocity, and the Governance of Scholarly Infrastructures
    1. Katja Mayer
21. 10. From Data to Display: Infrastructures of Openness in the Making
    1. Lucie Kolb and Lara Kothe
22. IV. COMMUNITY-DRIVEN INFRASTRUCTURES OF CARE AND REPAIR
23. 11. Beyond the Digital Divide: Data Governance and Indigenous Sovereignty in Andean Potato Conservation
    1. Julio Sebastián Zárate Vásquez and Jason A. Delborne
24. 12. Opening Network Infrastructures: The Sociomaterial Politics of Openness in Grassroots Community Networks
    1. Stefano Crabu
25. 13. From Permacomputing to Agbogbloshie: Open-Knowledge Infrastructures for Computational Repair
    1. Cyrus Khalatbari
26. 14. Controversial Openness, an Exploration of Open Image Generation Assemblages
    1. Nicolas Malevé
27. V. INFRASTRUCTURING OPENNESS IN THE FUTURE
28. 15. Infrastructuring Openness or Opening Infrastructures?
    1. Annalisa Pelizza and Renée Ridgway
29. 16. (Trans)action Cycles: New Resource Architectures for a Digital Commons
    1. Katharina Meyer
30. 17. Open Digital Infrastructures for Democratic Resilience and Economic Sovereignty
    1. Leonhard Dobusch and Maximilian Heimstädt
31. Index
32. About the Team
33. This book need not end here…
34. You may also be interested in:
35. Back cover

Headings Outline

• THE POLITICS OF OPEN INFRASTRUCTURES
• The Politics of Open Infrastructures
  • Power, Governance, and Justice in Digital Knowledge Practices
    • Katja Mayer, Astrid Mager, and Renée Ridgway
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Contributor Biographies
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction: The Politics of Open Digital Knowledge Infrastructures
  • Astrid Mager, Katja Mayer, and Renée Ridgway
  • Analytical Foundations: Knowledge, Infrastructure, and Politics
  • Crosscutting Themes: Socio-technical Complexities, Platformisation, and Infrastructural Politics
    • Socio-technical Complexities
    • Platformisation of Infrastructures
    • Infrastructural Politics
  • Book Outline: From the Early Internet to the Future of Infrastructuring
    • 1. Early Days of Internet Openness
    • 2. Opening Government Data Infrastructures
    • 3. Inclusive Governance of Digital Knowledge Infrastructures
    • 4. Community-driven Infrastructures of Care and Repair
    • 5. Infrastructuring Openness in the Future
  • Concluding Remarks and Outlook
  • References
• I. EARLY DAYS OF INTERNET OPENNESS
• 1. Send Conservatively, Accept Liberally: Cultural Governance of Open Internet Standards
  • Corinne Cath
  • 1. Introduction: Rejecting Kings, Presidents, and Voting
  • 2. The IETF: Technical Functions and Claims to Openness
  • 3. Theoretical Framework and Methodology
  • 4. Cultural Barriers to Openness
    • 4.1 Techno-Optimism as a ‘Standard’ Narrative
    • 4.2 The Working Practice of ‘Loud Men Talking Loudly’ and their Effects
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• 2. From Free Software to Open Source: Traversing the Terminologies, Values and Ethics of an Open Knowledge Infrastructure
  • Renée Ridgway
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Politics (or Lack Thereof?) of FOSS Initiatives
  • 3. When Is an Infrastructure a Complex and Relational Ecology?
  • 4. Epistemological Encounters
  • 5. Emerging (Open) Infrastructures
    • 5.1 Embeddedness, Installed Bases, Scope, Transparency, and Community
    • 5.2 Conventions of Practice and Embodiment of Standards
    • 5.3 Visibility through Breakdown
  • 6. FOSS is an Open Infrastructure When It Is Open, Political, and Collectivised
  • 7. Recursive Publics
  • 8. Concluding Thoughts
  • References
• 3. The Internet Infrastructure Has Never Been Open
  • Niels ten Oever1
  • Open for the Military
  • Open for Industry
  • Open for Civil Society
  • Open for Intelligence
  • Open for the State
  • Freedom in Limitation: Demilitarised Infrastructures and Public Services
  • References
• II. OPENING GOVERNMENT DATA INFRASTRUCTURES
• 4. Infrastructuring Openness: Austrian Practices and Politics of Opening Up Government Data
  • Astrid Mager
  • Introduction
  • The Push Towards Open Government in the Data Welfare State
  • Opening Up Government Data in Austria
  • Infrastructure Building and Data Work
  • Practices of Data Aggregation
  • Call for Collaboration
  • Conclusions
  • Funding and Acknowledgments
  • References
• 5. The Future of Urban Waste: From Closed Systems to Open Waste Data Infrastructure1
  • Celina Strzelecka
  • 1. From Waste to Data: Infrastructuring Urban Refuse
  • 2. From Personalised Waste to Simulated Pricing: The Making of Individual Responsibility
  • 3. Analytical Reflections: Infrastructure, Responsibility, and the Politics of Data
    • 3.1 Governing through Infrastructure
    • 3.2 Data as Moral Infrastructure
    • 3.3 Wasting Well: Challenging Technosolutionism
    • 3.4 Infrastructure as Future-Making
    • 4. From Speculation to Implementation: Reframing Openness in Waste Data Infrastructures
  • 5. Methodological Reflections: Ethnography of Infrastructure and Anticipatory Anthropology
    • 5.1 Ethnography of Infrastructure
    • 5.2 Multi-perspectival Approach
    • 5.3 Anticipatory Anthropology
  • 6. Beyond Open-washing: Designing for Data Justice in Waste Infrastructures
  • 7. Conclusion: From Datafication to Democratic Waste Futures
  • References
• 6. The Politics of Federated Protocols: Openness Organised through Digital Sovereignty
  • Francesca Musiani1
  • Federated Architectures
  • The Politics of Federated Protocols
  • How Digital Sovereignty Strategies Are Embedded in Infrastructures
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• III. INCLUSIVE GOVERNANCE OF DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE INFRASTRUCTURES
• 7. OpenEdition as a Governed Milieu: Towards an Ecological Understanding of Open Digital Knowledge Infrastructures
  • Simon Dumas Primbault
  • Introduction
  • 1. Ecologies of Infrastructure
  • 2. Case Study
  • 3. OpenEdition within its ‘Ecosystem’
  • 4. For an Ecology of Open Infrastructures
  • Conclusion
  • 7. References
• 8. The Politics of Infrastructuring Inclusivity: DOAJ and its Ambassador Programme
  • Ivonne Lujano Vilchis, Katrine Sundsbø, Ina Smith, and Joanna Ball
  • Introduction
  • The Geopolitics of Knowledge: Classification, Standards, and Epistemic Injustice
  • Building a Global Infrastructure: The Categorical work of DOAJ
  • What Defines an Infrastructure? The Growth of DOAJ as a Community-led Infrastructure
  • Infrastructuring Inclusivity: The DOAJ Ambassador Programme
  • A Review of the Ambassador Programme
  • Closing Remarks
  • Digital Annex
  • References
• 9. Paradoxes of Openness: Power, Reciprocity, and the Governance of Scholarly Infrastructures
  • Katja Mayer1
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Situating Openness in Knowledge Infrastructures
  • 3. The Paradoxes of Openness in Scholarly Infrastructures
    • 3.1 Open Access Publishing: From Challenging Publishers to Supplying Platforms
    • 3.2 Research Data Infrastructures: The Labour of Machine-Readiness
    • 3.3 Open Benchmarking Infrastructures: Evaluation as Competitive Resource
  • 4. Discussion: From Diagnosis to Governance
    • 4.1 The Problems of Endurance, Infrastructural Dependency and the Sovereignty Gap
    • 4.2 Emerging Arrangements and Their Conditions
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• 10. From Data to Display: Infrastructures of Openness in the Making
  • Lucie Kolb and Lara Kothe
  • Sharing Knowledge in the Arts
  • Open Research Databases
  • Setting the Stage
  • Contextualising through LOD, Metadata, and Ontology
  • Data Visualisation: Representation and Interpretation 
  • Alternative Imaginaries 
    • Materialarchiv
    • Infrastructural Manœuvres in the Library
    • The Sound of Water
  • Learning from Others
  • Closing Preliminary Thoughts 
  • References
• IV. COMMUNITY-DRIVEN INFRASTRUCTURES OF CARE AND REPAIR
• 11. Beyond the Digital Divide: Data Governance and Indigenous Sovereignty in Andean Potato Conservation
  • Julio Sebastián Zárate Vásquez and Jason A. Delborne
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical Framework: Digital Divide, Data Sovereignty and Datafication
  • 3. Methodology and Methods
  • 4. Background: Cataloguing Andean Potatoes
  • 5. Analysis: Data Curation and Data Collection Practices
    • 5.1 Arbiters of Agrobiodiversity
    • 5.2 Workshops as Training Sessions
  • 6. Discussion
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• 12. Opening Network Infrastructures: The Sociomaterial Politics of Openness in Grassroots Community Networks
  • Stefano Crabu
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Long Journey Toward Opening Network Infrastructures: The Genealogy of Community Networks
  • 3. Governing Community Networks, Opening Infrastructures
  • 4. Free Software, Wireless Antennas, and Technical Expertise at Work in Community Networks’ Politics of Openness
  • 5. Final Remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• 13. From Permacomputing to Agbogbloshie: Open-Knowledge Infrastructures for Computational Repair
  • Cyrus Khalatbari
  • Introduction
  • Ecomedia Studies
  • Materials and Methods
  • Grounded Contexts of Computation
    • Permacomputing
    • Agbogbloshie
  • Computational Culture and its Situated Practices
  • New Imaginaries of Resistance
  • Seamfulness as Knowledge
  • References
• 14. Controversial Openness, an Exploration of Open Image Generation Assemblages
  • Nicolas Malevé1
  • Introduction
  • Infrastructural Assemblages
  • Knowledge Production and the Weight of Compute
  • Legal Coding of AI Platforms and Value Extraction
  • The Case of Stability AI and Stable Diffusion
  • Image Values and their Discontents
  • Variation upon Variation, the AI Horde
  • The Production of Aesthetic Scores
  • Conclusions
  • References
• V. INFRASTRUCTURING OPENNESS IN THE FUTURE
• 15. Infrastructuring Openness or Opening Infrastructures?
  • Annalisa Pelizza and Renée Ridgway
  • References
• 16. (Trans)action Cycles: New Resource Architectures for a Digital Commons
  • Katharina Meyer
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Problem Space: Fragility, Market Failures, and Boundaries of Openness
  • 3. Comparative Funding Models: Emerging Institutional Diversity
  • 4. D//F as a Boundary Institution: Design Tensions and the Politics of Resourcing
  • 5. Outlook and Conclusion: Towards New Resource Architectures
  • References
• 17. Open Digital Infrastructures for Democratic Resilience and Economic Sovereignty
  • Leonhard Dobusch and Maximilian Heimstädt
  • Six Theses and Three Steps
  • 1. Open Digital Infrastructure as Economic and Democratic Self-Empowerment
  • 2. Strengthening Open Digital Infrastructure as a Government Responsibility
  • 3. Public Socialisation as a Sustainable Form of Governance
  • References
• Index
• About the Team
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