The Politics of Open Infrastructures: Power, Governance, and Justice in Digital Knowledge Practices (opens in new tab)

an open access book by Katja Mayer, Astrid Mager, and Renée Ridgway This volume examines how openness is designed, governed, contested and lived in contemporary digital knowledge infrastructures. From open source software and internet standards, to citizen science platforms, public sector data systems and alternative computing practices, the book shows that infrastructures are never neutral technical backbones. They are deeply political arrangements that embed values, distribute power and sha...