How Are Infrastructures and Publics Related and Why Should We Care? An Email Conversation

Abstract

What follows is a moderated and slightly edited email conversation on the relation of infrastructures and publics that started in July 2017. Over the course of several months and in a considered follow-up of emails Sigrid Baringhorst (Professor of Political Science, University of Siegen), Noortje Marres (Associate Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick), Elizabeth Shove (Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University/DEMAND Centre), and Volker Wulf (Professor of Information Systems and New Media, University of Siegen) discussed how infrastructures and publics are related. During their conversation they touched on both scholarly and current political issues.