I’m excited to announce that Chris Ritzo and I have submitted a proposal to the Knight News Challenge, which is focused on the following question “How might we leverage libraries as platform to build more knowledgeable communities?” Please read our proposal, entitled Beyond Library Walls introduced below and, if you like it, consider applauding the…
Month: September 2014
The Social Shaping of Cloud Computing
My dissertation, entitled “The Social Shaping of Cloud Computing: An Ethnography of Infrastructure in East St. Louis, Illinois” is now available online via the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS). My committee members included: Christian Sandvig (advisor), Linda C. Smith, Dan Schiller, and Rayvon Fouché. Here is the abstract: This study…
Welcome
My name is Colin Rhinesmith. I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma. My research and teaching interests are focused within the areas of social and community informatics. My interests also include infrastructure studies, telecommunications and information policy, and ethnography of information and communication technology….