Writings

Publications are linked to a .pdf file of a final draft or publication website.

Ribes, D. and G.C. Bowker, Between meaning and machine: learning to represent the knowledge of communities. Information and Organization, 2009 (pages & issue, forthcoming).

Geiger, S. and D.Ribes, The work of sustaining order in Wikipedia: The banning of a vandal. Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).

Ribes, D. and T.A. Finholt, The long now of infrastructure: Articulating tensions in development. Journal for the Association of Information Systems (JAIS): Special issue on eInfrastructures, 2009. 10(5): p. 375-398.

Ribes, D. and T. A. Finholt (2008). 'Representing community: Knowing users in the face of changing constituencies.' Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).

Ribes, David and Bowker, Geoffrey C. (2008) 'Organizing for Multidisciplinary Collaboration: The Case of GEON', in G.M. Olson, J.S. Olson and A. Zimmerman (eds), Science on the Internet (Cambridge: MIT Press).

Bowker, Geoffrey C., Baker, K.S., Millerand, Florence and Ribes, David (forthcoming) 'Towards Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment', in J.D. Hunsinger, M. Allen and L. Klastrup (eds), International Handbook of Internet Research: Springer).

Ribes, David and Finholt, Thomas A. (2007) 'Tensions across the Scales: Planning Infrastructure for the Long-Term', Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA.

Ribes, David and Baker, K.S. (2007) 'Modes of Social Science Engagement in Community Infrastructure Design', in Steinfield, Brian T. Pentland, M. Ackerman and N. Contractor (eds), Proceedings of Third International Conference on Communities and Technology (London: Springer): 107-30.

Ribes, David and Finholt, Thomas A. (2007) 'Planning infrastructure for the long-term: Learning from cases in the natural sciences', Proceedings of the Third International Conference on e-Social Science, Ann Arbor, MI June 2006.

Khoo, Mick and Ribes, David (2005) 'Studying Digital Library Users in the Wild: Theories, Methods, and Analytical Approaches', in, D-Lib Magazine.

Ribes, David (2005) 'The Positions of the Social Scientist: Social and Technical Acts of Intervention', D-Lib Magazine 11/7/8 (July/August).

Ribes, David and Baker, K.S. (2006) 'Elements of Social Science Engagement in Information Infrastructure Design', ACM: The Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, San Diego, CA, May 21-24.

Baker, K.S., Ribes, David, Millerand, Florence and Bowker, Geoffrey C. (2005) 'Interoperability Strategies for Scientific Cyberinfrastructure: Research Practice', in, Proceedings of the American Society for Information Systems and Technology.

Ribes, David, Baker, K.S., Millerand, Florence and Bowker, Geoffrey C. (2005) 'Comparative Interoperability Project: Configurations of Community, Technology, Organization', Proceedings of the Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.

Baker, K.S, Bowker, G.C, Millerand, F., Ribes, D. (Spring 2005) “Continuing an Ethnographic Approach - Interoperability Strategies for Scientific Cyberinfrastructure: A Comparative Study” LTER Network Newsletter.

Book Reviews

Ribes, D. 2008. “The Matter of Users” Review of How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of users and technologies, Nelly Oudshoorn and Trevor Pinch (eds.). Metascience 17(1).

Ribes, D. 2008. “Tying Internet Studies Together” Review of Sociology in the Age of the Internet, Allison Cavanagh. Metascience 17(2).

Dissertation

Ribes, David (2006) 'Universal Informatics: Building Cyberinfrastructure, Interoperating the Geosciences', in, Department of Sociology (Science Studies) (San Diego: University of California).

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Under Preparation, Review or Revision

Ribes, David (under review) 'Automating the Arts: Building Digital Visualization Software for the Sciences and Engineering',

Ribes, David. (In Preparation). ‘The Will to Infrastructure: Generating the Push and the Pull to eScience’