In 2012, a workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation
was held at the University of Michigan School of Information, US.
Two dozen scholars, Some 25 American scholars, joined by two colleagues from Britain,
from many domains, including sociology, science and technology studies, computer science,
human-computer interaction, and the digital humanities, participated in three days of intensive
discussions and breakout groups. This document reports the outcomes, organized around three
central questions: How are knowledge infrastructures changing? How do changes in knowledge
infrastructures reinforce or redistribute authority, influence, and power? And how can we best
study, know, and imagine knowledge infrastructures moving forward?
The report of this workshope is entitled Knowledge infrastructures: Intellectual frameworks and research challenges and can be accessed via the University of Michigan Repository.
Edwards, P. N., Jackson, S. J., Chalmers, M. K., Bowker, G. C., Borgman, C. L., Ribes, D., Burton, M., & Calvert, S. (2013). Knowledge infrastructures: Intellectual frameworks and research challenges (p. 40). University of Michigan. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/97552