Computer-supported cooperative work: a book of readings
Computer-supported cooperative work: a book of readings
Faltering from ethnography to design
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Ethnographically-informed systems design for air traffic control
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Information rules: a strategic guide to the network economy
Information rules: a strategic guide to the network economy
Accumulating and Coordinating: Occasions for Information Technologies in Medical Work
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Hunting for the Treasure at the End of theRainbow: Standardizing corporate IT Infrastructure
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Designing Work Oriented Infrastructures
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems
Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems
A Descriptive Framework of Workspace Awareness for Real-Time Groupware
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
The Camera as an ActorDesign-in-Use of Telemedicine Infrastructure inSurgery
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
A Patchwork Planet Integration and Cooperation in Hospitals
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Locales Framework: Understanding and Designing for Wicked Problems
Locales Framework: Understanding and Designing for Wicked Problems
Making a Case in Medical Work: Implications forthe Electronic Medical Record
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
ICT and Integrated Care: Some Dilemmas of Standardising Inter-Organisational Communication
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Social Learning In Technological Innovation: Experimenting With Information And Communication Technologies
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Achieving Dependability in the Configuration, Integration and Testing of Healthcare Technologies
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Seamless Integration: Standardisation across Multiple Local Settings
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
What are workplace studies for?
ECSCW'95 Proceedings of the fourth conference on European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Materiality and change: Challenges to building better theory about technology and organizing
Information and Organization
Standardization of Work: Co-constructed Practice
The Information Society
The intellectual challenge of CSCW: the gap between social requirements and technical feasibility
Human-Computer Interaction
Integration and Generification--Agile Software Development in the Healthcare Market
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Testing in the Wild: The Social and Organisational Dimensions of Real World Practice
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Trans-Situated Learning: Supporting a Network of Practice with an Information Infrastructure
Information Systems Research
Infrastructure Time: Long-term Matters in Collaborative Development
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Sociotechnical Studies of Cyberinfrastructure and e-Research: Current Themes and Future Trajectories
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Information and Organization
Constructing CSCW: The First Quarter Century
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Ambient affiliates in virtual cross-organizational tourism alliances
Computers in Human Behavior
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In their initial articulation of the direction of the CSCW field, scholars advanced an open-ended agenda. This continuing commitment to open-ness to different contexts and approaches is not, however, reflected in the contents of the major CSCW outlets. The field appears to privilege particular forms of cooperative work. We find many examples of what could be described as `localist studies', restricted to particular settings and timeframes. This focus on the `here and now' is particularly problematic when one considers the kinds of large-scale, integrated and interconnected workplace information technologies--or what we are calling Information Infrastructures--increasingly found within and across organisations today. CSCW appears unable (or unwilling) to grapple with these technologies--which were at the outset envisaged as falling within the scope of the field. Our paper hopes to facilitate greater CSCW attention to Information Infrastructures through offering a re-conceptualisation of the role and nature of `design'. Design within an Information Infrastructures perspective needs to accommodate non-local constraints. We discuss two such forms of constraint: standardisation (how local fitting entails unfitting at other sites) and embeddedness (the entanglement of one technology with other apparently unrelated ones). We illustrate these themes through introducing case material drawn on from a number of previous studies.