A TRICHORDAL TEMPORAL APPROACH TO DIGITAL COORDINATION: THE SOCIOMATERIAL MANGLING OF THE CERN GRID

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Venters, Will; Oborn, Eivor; Barrett, Michael
• 署名单位: University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Warwick; University of Cambridge
• 刊物名称: MIS QUARTERLY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0276-7783
• DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2014/38.3.13
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 927-949
• 关键词: technology; infrastructures; ORGANIZATION; management; INNOVATION; ACTORS; logic; POWER; LIFE

摘要

This paper develops a sociomaterial perspective on digital coordination. It extends Pickering's mangle of practice by using a trichordal approach to temporal emergence. We provide new understanding as to how the nonhuman and human agencies involved in coordination are embedded in the past, present, and future. We draw on an in-depth field study conducted between 2006 and 2010 of the development, introduction, and use of a computing grid infrastructure by the CERN particle physics community. Three coordination tensions are identified at different temporal dimensions, namelyobtaining adequate transparency in the present, modeling a future infrastructure, and the historical disciplining of social and material inertias. We propose and develop the concept of digital coordination, and contribute a trichordal temporal approach to understanding the development and use of digital infrastructure as being orientated to the past and future while emerging in the present.