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The Dialectical Tensions in the Funding Infrastructure of Cyberinfrastructure

Authors: Kerk F. Kee, Larry D. Browning

Published in: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) | Issue 3-4/2010

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This article focuses on funding for cyberinfrastructure and how funding affects the cyberinfrastructure foundation laid, who completes the work, and what the outcomes of the funding are. By following qualitative procedures and thematic analysis, we identify five dialectical tensions across three difference levels of institutions, individuals, and ideologies in the funding infrastructure of cyberinfrastructure. Through an organizational communication lens, we define funding infrastructure as the communication arrangements of institutions, individuals, and ideologies that must be coordinated in order for cyberinfrastructure to be brought into existence. These communication arrangements include salient motivations of and financial compensations for individuals who engage in them. They also comprise explicit policies about funding, as well as implicit ideologies about science embedded in funding, as held by institutions involved in these communication arrangements.

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Title: The Dialectical Tensions in the Funding Infrastructure of Cyberinfrastructure
Authors: Kerk F. Kee
Larry D. Browning
Publication date: 01-08-2010
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) / Issue 3-4/2010
Print ISSN: 0925-9724
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7551
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-010-9116-9

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