ABSTRACT

An increasing digitalisation of analogous infrastructures can be recorded, and vice versa it can be said that digitality can only be realised so potently because of the expansion of infrastructures such as the Internet. Furthermore, the idea, the research, and the theoretical elaboration of the 'Ethnography of Infrastructures' (EoI) has principally arisen in the context of software development and the implementation of information systems in different work contexts. Information infrastructure is a great tool for distribution of knowledge, culture, and practice. The often cited relational perspectives on infrastructures, which bring together technological, organisational, and social dimensions, have so far found little reflection in theory and little implementation in empirical contexts. Very different points of access and approaches that can be taken up in an EoI, depending on the conditions in the respective research field and the analytical emphasis that is to be pursued.