Blockchain assemblages: whiteboxing technology and transforming infrastructural imaginaries
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Blockchain assemblages : whiteboxing technology and transforming infrastructural imaginaries. / Jabbar, Karim; Bjørn, Pernille.
CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. 266.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - GEN
T1 - Blockchain assemblages
T2 - 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019
AU - Jabbar, Karim
AU - Bjørn, Pernille
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - In this paper we unpack empirical data from two domains within the Blockchain information infrastructure: The cryptocurrency trading domain, and the energy domain. Through these accounts we introduce the relational concepts of Blockchain Assemblages and Whiteboxing. Blockchain assemblages comprise configurations of digital and analogue artefacts that are entangled with imaginaries about the current and future state of the Blockchain information infrastructure. Rather than being a black box, Blockchain assemblages alternate between being dynamic and stable entities. We propose Whiteboxing as the sociomaterial process which drives blockchain assemblages in their dynamic state to be (re)configured, while related artefacts and imaginaries are simultaneously transformed, creating dynamic representations. Whiteboxing is triggered during disconfirming events when representations are discovered as problematic. Complementing existing historical accounts demonstrating technologies in the making, the contribution of this paper, proposes whiteboxing as an analytical concept which allows us to unpack how contemporary technologies are created through entrepreneurial activities.
AB - In this paper we unpack empirical data from two domains within the Blockchain information infrastructure: The cryptocurrency trading domain, and the energy domain. Through these accounts we introduce the relational concepts of Blockchain Assemblages and Whiteboxing. Blockchain assemblages comprise configurations of digital and analogue artefacts that are entangled with imaginaries about the current and future state of the Blockchain information infrastructure. Rather than being a black box, Blockchain assemblages alternate between being dynamic and stable entities. We propose Whiteboxing as the sociomaterial process which drives blockchain assemblages in their dynamic state to be (re)configured, while related artefacts and imaginaries are simultaneously transformed, creating dynamic representations. Whiteboxing is triggered during disconfirming events when representations are discovered as problematic. Complementing existing historical accounts demonstrating technologies in the making, the contribution of this paper, proposes whiteboxing as an analytical concept which allows us to unpack how contemporary technologies are created through entrepreneurial activities.
KW - Assemblages
KW - Blockchain
KW - Cryptocurrency
KW - Embeddedness
KW - Entrepreneurship
KW - Information infrastructures
KW - Renewable energy
KW - Sociomaterial
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067622374&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3290605.3300496
DO - 10.1145/3290605.3300496
M3 - Article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85067622374
BT - CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 4 May 2019 through 9 May 2019
ER -
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