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The 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-50) Minitrack:
Values, Power, and Politics in Digital Infrastructures
This minitrack will explore the themes of values, power, and politics in relation to the infrastructures that support digital data, documents, and interactions. By considering how infrastructures – the underlying material properties, policy decisions, and mechanisms of interoperability that support digital platforms – are designed, maintained, and dismantled, the work presented in this mini-track will contribute to debates about sociotechnical aspects of digital and social media, with a focus on data, knowledge production, and information access. This session will focus on research that employs techniques such as infrastructural inversion, trace ethnography or design research (among other methods) to explore factors that influence the development of infrastructures and their use in practice. We welcome papers considering topics such as (but not limited to):• Politics and ethics in digital platforms and infrastructures
• Values of stakeholders in digital infrastructures
• Materiality of values, power, or politics in digital infrastructures
• Tensions between commercial infrastructures and the needs of communities of practice
• Maintenance, repair, deletion, decay of digital and social media infrastructures
• Resistance, adoption and adaptation of digital infrastructures
• Alternative perspectives on what comprises infrastructures
Deadline: June 15, 2016
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Katie Shilton
Assistant Professor
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
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