The Dialectical Tensions in the Funding Infrastructure of Cyberinfrastructure

  • Authors:

  • Kerk F. Kee;Larry D. Browning

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Communication Studies, Chapman University, Orange, USA 92866;Department of Communication Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA 78712-0115 and Bodø Graduate School of Business, Bodø University, Bodø, Norway N-8049

  • Venue:
  • Computer Supported Cooperative Work
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This article focuses on funding for cyberinfrastructure and how funding affects the cyberinfrastructure foundation laid, who completes the work, and what the outcomes of the funding are. By following qualitative procedures and thematic analysis, we identify five dialectical tensions across three difference levels of institutions, individuals, and ideologies in the funding infrastructure of cyberinfrastructure. Through an organizational communication lens, we define funding infrastructure as the communication arrangements of institutions, individuals, and ideologies that must be coordinated in order for cyberinfrastructure to be brought into existence. These communication arrangements include salient motivations of and financial compensations for individuals who engage in them. They also comprise explicit policies about funding, as well as implicit ideologies about science embedded in funding, as held by institutions involved in these communication arrangements.