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Rhinesmith, Colin H.

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The social shaping of cloud computing: An ethnography of infrastructure in East St. Louis, Illinois.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The social shaping of cloud computing: An ethnography of infrastructure in East St. Louis, Illinois./
Author:	Rhinesmith, Colin H.
Description:	202 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-06(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-06A(E).
Subject:	Information science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3673889
ISBN:	9781321515138

The social shaping of cloud computing: An ethnography of infrastructure in East St. Louis, Illinois.
Rhinesmith, Colin H.

The social shaping of cloud computing: An ethnography of infrastructure in East St. Louis, Illinois. - 202 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-06(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This study investigates the infrastructural tensions that shaped a cloud computing software implementation within a community-based organization in East St. Louis, Illinois. A community-based organization provides nonprofit social welfare services to low-income residents within a specific geographic location. In East St. Louis, 100 percent of the local school children are eligible for the free and reduced-price meal program, which is a common measure of poverty. Previous studies have focused on the impact of computerization on social workers and welfare organizations. This research instead uses a "social shaping of technology" perspective to analyze the ways in which broader social, institutional, and technical factors shape information infrastructure and its consequences. This eleven-month ethnographic study provides an account of the everyday technology experiences of social workers, managers, and directors in a community-based organization as they used cloud computing services at work.

ISBN: 9781321515138Subjects--Topical Terms:

554358
Information science.

The social shaping of cloud computing: An ethnography of infrastructure in East St. Louis, Illinois.
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520 $a Three major findings emerged from the study: (1) The tensions between external stakeholder demands and internal organizational needs influenced decisions about how the cloud computing software was configured and implemented; (2) the lack of interoperability between state-mandated and for-profit cloud computing systems, at times, exacerbated these tensions; and (3) the agency of a diverse and resilient group of human services professionals played a significant role in shaping the cloud computing software implementation. In presenting this sociotechnical analysis of information infrastructure, informed by critical perspectives at the intersection of race, gender, class, and technology, this research makes a contribution to the field of library and information science by describing how networked information systems can fail to meet the needs of community-based organizations that provide state-funded public assistance programs. I argue that in order to develop successful information infrastructures in human services organizations, cloud computing software platforms need to be flexible enough to both provide accountability to funders and meet the needs of community-based organizations.
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