Information Infrastructure as Rhetoric: Tools for Analysis

Abstract

Poroi 8, 1 (April 2012) Our lived worlds are systematized technologies that organize the information that to inform themselves about subjects as diverse as politics or energy consumption (Bowker & Star, 1999) scaffolding for discovery, dissemination, and access t information is concomitant the form of infrastructure has real consequences communication, knowledge, and political life that are already being studied by rhetoricians. A notable example of infrastructural significance own knowledge technologies to the scholarship of our peers benefit from their ability to organize academic access to the work of scholars. The intellectual work of creating these databases builds in should be organized. For instance, many database vendors provide access to their content through subject heading lists that were originally constructed at the turn of the 20 Infrastructure materializes uses it to organize the present and future. The work of building infrastructure builds tec public information The construction of these technological monsters rhetorical intervention. infrastructure can outwardly seem when discussing infrastructure, we begin by listing the numerous expressions of technology that hang together as (Bowker et al., 2010) the numerous computer systems, classifications, wiring, software, and interfaces that provide access to scholarly work. condenses at only a handful monster to work as