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Thinking Infrastructures
Thinking Infrastructuresbrings together interdisciplinary research on informational infrastructures to show how thinking, thought, and cognition as in ideas/rationalities and the practice/activity of thinking are inseparable from infrastructures.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2019.
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| Colección: | Research in the Sociology of Organizations Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Half Title Page; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures AND TABLES; Figures; Tables; About the Editors; About the Contributors; Introduction to Thinking Infrastructures; Why Thinking Infrastructures?; Thinking Infrastructures as Analytical Vocabulary; Valuing; Tracing; Governing; Relating Thinking Infrastructures to Ongoing Conversations; Materiality and the Performativity of Devices; Distributed Cognition and Social Infrastructures; Information, Knowledge and Thinking Infrastructures; Contributions to this Volume; References
- Chapter 01-Assembling Calculative InfrastructuresIntroduction1; Economizing Failure; Creating New Entities; Calculating Failure; Making Failure Operational; Rethinking Failure; Conclusion; References; Chapter 02-A Calculative Infrastructure in the Making: The Emergence of a Multi-Layered Complex for Governing Healthcare; Introduction; Governing by Quantification, Calculation and Infrastructures; When is an Infrastructure? Moments of Convergence and Processes of Layering; Making a Calculative Infrastructure for Governing Quality
- The Foundational Layer: Making Quality Calculable and Enabling Selective InterventionThe Second Layer
- Quality-based Competition and Self-regulating Hospitals; Discussion; Infrastructures are Flexible Enough to Serve Multiple Modalities for Governance; Incubation Periods Shape Infrastructure Development; Infrastructures Support Multiple Notions of Quality; Concluding Remarks; References; Primary Documents Cited; Grey Literature Cited; Chapter 03-Calculative Infrastructure for Hospitals: Governing Medical Practices and Health Expenditures Through a Pricing Payment System; Introduction
- From Cost Accounting to PPSState Ignorance; From Costing to Pricing: The Birth of the T2A; Rates as a Tool of Government to Reduce Variance; Reducing Variance between Hospital Budgets and Controlling the National Hospital Expenditures; Governing Medical Practices: A "Rate-Based Medicine"?; A Metrological Controversy: A Problematic Variance; An Under-valuation of Cystic Fibrosis; Redoing the Calculation; Conclusion; References; Chapter 04-Prospective Sensemaking and Thinking Infrastructures in a Large-Scale Humanitarian Crisis; Introduction
- The Challenge to Account for the Unexpected: Thinking Infrastructures in Unstable EnvironmentsSensemaking Theory; Prospective Sensemaking, Artifacts and Thinking Infrastructures; Methodology; Data Collection; Data analysis; Collective Sensemaking and Thinking Infrastructures in a Large-Scale Humanitarian Crisis; Breaking Away from a Reductionist Approach: The Role of Sphere's Evaluative Tensions in Making Sense of the Unexpected; From Retrospective Reflection to Exploring Tentative New Understandings: Evaluation as a Participatory Process