Steps toward an Ecology of Infrastructure: Design and Access for Large Information Spaces

This chapter contains sections titled: What Is Infrastructure?, When Is an Infrastructure?, The Worm Community System, Signing On and Hooking Up, Levels of Communication and Discontinuities in Hierarchies of Information, Double Binds: The Transcontextual Syndrome on the Net, Summary and Recommendations for Addressing Double Binds, Organizational Environment: Communities and Large-Scale Infrastructure, Conclusion, Notes, References