@inbook {miscione2020authenticatingregistries,
	title = {Authenticating deeds / organizing society: Considerations for Blockchain-based Land Registries},
	booktitle = {DeVries W. (ed.). Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions: An African Context},
	year = {2020},
	month = {Jul},
	publisher = {Routledge},
	organization = {Routledge},
	abstract = {This chapter steps back from specific empirical cases and discusses alternative theoretical lenses that can be used to study if and how blockchain-based registries in Africa will be affecting organizations and society. Those lenses are: Neoinstitutionalism, Structuration theory, and Actor-Network theory. Each of them is adopted to outline aspects of blockchain first, then to highlight specificities in Ghana, finally to suggest research lines. This plurality of theoretical lenses encourages to foster a more nuanced understanding of unconventional contexts of technology in use, thus to derive better recommendations than those based on reductionist frameworks, which often overlook specificities of developing countries.},
	author = {Miscione, G and Richter, C and Ziolkowski, R},
	editor = {DeVries, W}
}
@inbook {miscione2020authenticatingsociety,
	title = {Authenticating Deeds/Organizing Society},
	booktitle = {Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions},
	year = {2020},
	month = {Jul},
	pages = {133{\textendash}150},
	publisher = {CRC Press},
	organization = {CRC Press},
	doi = {10.1201/9781003021636-14},
	author = {Miscione, G and Richter, C and Ziolkowski, R}
}
@article {zavolokina2020buyerslemons,
	title = {Buyers of {\textquoteleft}lemons{\textquoteright}: How can a blockchain platform address buyers{\textquoteright} needs in the market for {\textquoteleft}lemons{\textquoteright}?},
	journal = {Electronic Markets},
	volume = {30},
	number = {2},
	year = {2020},
	month = {Jun},
	pages = {227{\textendash}239},
	abstract = {{\textcopyright} 2019, Institute of Applied Informatics at University of Leipzig. The second-hand automotive market is one with the least trust from consumers. Customers on the second-hand car market suffer from such problems as the car being in worse condition than initially indicated, accident damage that is not disclosed, fraud, etc. Akerlof, described the market for used cars as an example of the problem of information asymmetries and resulting quality uncertainty. In order to cope with quality uncertainties, used car buyers actively engage themselves in information seeking. Blockchain technology promises to automatize the tracking of cars through their lifecycles and provide reliable information at any point in time it is needed. In our study, we investigate the problems car buyers face during information seeking and propose requirements for the design of a blockchain-based system to address these.},
	issn = {1019-6781},
	doi = {10.1007/s12525-019-00380-9},
	author = {Zavolokina, L and Miscione, G and Schwabe, G}
}
@article {miscione2020decisionshoes,
	title = {Decision Problems in Blockchain Systems: old wine in new bottles of walking in someone else shoes?},
	journal = {Journal of Management Information Systems},
	year = {2020},
	publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
	abstract = {Blockchain technology comes with the promise of being a disruptive technology with the potential for novel ways of interaction in a wide range of applications. Following broader application, scholarly interest in the technology is growing, though an extensive analysis of blockchain applications from a governance perspective is lacking to date. This research pays special attention to the governance of blockchain systems and illustrates decision problems in 14 blockchain systems from four application domains. Based on academic literature, semi-structured interviews with representatives from those organizations, and content analysis of grey literature, common problems in blockchain governance have been singled out and contextualized. Studying their enactment revealed their relevance to major organizational theories in what we labelled {\textquotedblleft}Patrolling the borders{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}External Legitimation{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}Reduction of Discretionality{\textquotedblright}, and {\textquotedblleft}Temporal Management{\textquotedblright}. The identification of these problems enriches the scarce body of knowledge on the governance of blockchain systems, resulting in a better understanding of how blockchain governance links to existing concepts and how it is enacted in practice.},
	issn = {0742-1222},
	author = {Miscione, G and Ziolkowski, R and Schwabe, G}
}
@conference {ziolkowski2020exploringconstitution,
	title = {Exploring Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: Towards Shared Interests and {\textquoteleft}Code is Constitution{\textquoteright}},
	year = {2020},
	author = {Ziolkowski, R and Miscione, G and Schwabe, G}
}
@article {wingreen2020sourcesbitcoin,
	title = {Sources of Cryptocurrency Value Systems: The Case of Bitcoin},
	journal = {International Journal of Electronic Commerce},
	volume = {24},
	number = {4},
	year = {2020},
	month = {Oct},
	pages = {474{\textendash}496},
	publisher = {Informa UK Limited},
	issn = {1086-4415},
	doi = {10.1080/10864415.2020.1806469},
	author = {Wingreen, SC and Kavanagh, D and John Ennis, P and Miscione, G}
}
@article {kavanagh2019themethod,
	title = {The Bitcoin game: Ethno-resonance as method},
	journal = {Organization},
	volume = {26},
	number = {4},
	year = {2019},
	month = {Jul},
	pages = {517{\textendash}536},
	abstract = {{\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2019. The global financial crisis and the contemporaneous emergence of the digital currency Bitcoin invite us to think about money and how it often functions almost imperceptibly in society. In this article, we show that Bitcoin is a {\textquoteleft}new object of concern{\textquoteright} that also compels us to reimagine ethnography in a digital age. We present a method, which we term ethno-resonance, that is both a reaction to the conditions presented by the Bitcoin phenomenon and a way of maintaining critical distance from its cyberlibertarian politics. We explicate six aspects of the method, framed around answers to what, why, how, who, when and where questions. Applied to cryptocurrencies, the method leads us to depict Bitcoin as a game, and we analyse the game{\textquoteright}s dynamics through mapping the interplay between four foundational myths that animate, complicate and sustain the game. More broadly, this contributes to our understanding of the nature of money and alternative currencies.},
	issn = {1350-5084},
	doi = {10.1177/1350508419828567},
	author = {Kavanagh, D and Miscione, G and Ennis, PJ}
}
@booklet {miscione2019blockchaintechnology,
	title = {Blockchain as organizational technology},
	year = {2019},
	month = {Feb},
	publisher = {University of Zurich},
	abstract = {Institute for Informatics Colloquium},
	url = {https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/studies/phd/colloquium/spring-2019/details-colloquium-spring-2019.html},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@conference {zavolokina2019buyerstechnology,
	title = {Buyers of Lemons: Addressing Buyers{\textquoteright} Needs in the Market for Lemons with Blockchain Technology},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences},
	year = {2019},
	publisher = {Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences},
	organization = {Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences},
	isbn = {9780998133126},
	doi = {10.24251/hicss.2019.223},
	author = {Zavolokina, L and Miscione, G and Schwabe, G}
}
@article {kavanagh2019carnivalinfrastructures,
	title = {Carnival in the global village: Re-imagining information infrastructures},
	journal = {Information Society},
	volume = {35},
	number = {5},
	year = {2019},
	month = {Oct},
	pages = {299{\textendash}313},
	abstract = {{\textcopyright}, Published with license by Taylor \& Francis. {\textcopyright} Donncha Kavanagh and Gianluca Miscione. Infrastructures are typically seen as boring and serious, and are routinely depicted using metaphors from transportation. We argue that the carnival is a fruitful metaphor for understanding emerging information infrastructures, as the information age is also the age of the carnival. We distinguish between the ubiquitous or distal carnival and its particular manifestations{\textendash}the proximate carnival{\textendash}both of which are characterized by play, anarchy, dissimulation, vulgar language, and excessive consumption. The article focuses on Bitcoin, which we see as a nascent information infrastructure and an exemplary instance of a proximate carnival. It also considers how the carnival metaphor might help us reimagine our study of the information age.},
	issn = {0197-2243},
	doi = {10.1080/01972243.2019.1647321},
	author = {Kavanagh, D and Miscione, G}
}
@conference {miscione2019ascene,
	title = {A claim upon what? Cryptocurrencies as {\textquoteright}scene{\textquoteright}},
	year = {2019},
	month = {Feb},
	publisher = {Edinburgh, Scotland},
	organization = {Edinburgh, Scotland},
	author = {Miscione, G and Kavanagh, D}
}
@booklet {miscione2019currenciesinfrastructures,
	title = {Currencies as infrastructures},
	year = {2019},
	abstract = {The Baseline podcast by Dan Frost},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2019derrasiermesser,
	title = {Der Blockchain-Hype {\textendash} braucht es "Ockhams Rasiermesser"?},
	year = {2019},
	month = {Feb},
	publisher = {Inside IT Switzerland},
	url = {https://www.inside-it.ch/articles/53576},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@conference {ziolkowski2019examiningsystems,
	title = {Examining Gentle Rivalry: Decision-Making in Blockchain Systems},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences},
	year = {2019},
	publisher = {Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences},
	organization = {Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences},
	isbn = {9780998133126},
	doi = {10.24251/hicss.2019.550},
	author = {Ziolkowski, R and Parangi, G and Miscione, G and Schwabe, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2019fromtechnology,
	title = {From authentication to {\textquoteleft}Hanseatic governance{\textquoteright}: Blockchain as organizational technology},
	year = {2019},
	note = {London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) seminar series organized by the Department of Management, London, UK},
	month = {Jan},
	abstract = {Blockchain technology provides a distributed ledger and is based on a logic of peer to peer authentication. It gained prominence with the rise of cryptocurrencies but provides a much broader field of possible application, including {\textendash} but not limited to {\textendash} land and other registries, global trade systems. While it has been originally closely linked to a libertarian, anarchic agenda, recent developments of commercial applications have illustrated that it can been dissociated from a particular ideological framing. The purpose of our paper is to identify and classify core properties of blockchain as an organizational technology and related modes of blockchain governance. We do this by looking at a number of case studies which highlight a number of governance design issues as well as unintended effects of the technology and related design choices. We are exploring the linkages between blockchain application properties and related design options and choices.},
	author = {Miscione, G and Goerke, T and Klein, S}
}
@conference {miscione2019hanseatictechnology,
	title = {Hanseatic Governance: Understanding Blockchain as Organizational Technology},
	year = {2019},
	month = {Sep},
	abstract = {Blockchain technology provides a distributed ledger and is based on a logic of peer to peer authentication. It gained prominence with the rise of cryptocurrencies but provides a much broader field of possible applications. While it has been originally closely linked to a libertarian agenda rejecting organizations, its developments have illustrated that this ideological framing is being reversed in practice. Based on contrastive empirical cases, the purpose of our paper is to discuss blockchain as an organizational technology. Its peculiar mode of governance, which we name {\textquoteleft}Hanseatic{\textquoteright}, needs to mediate between the fluidity typical of Free and Open Source Software development and the immutability that use organizations adopt blockchain for.},
	author = {Miscione, G and Klein, S and Schwabe, G and Goerke, T and Ziolkowski, R}
}
@booklet {hargittai2019watchstreaming,
	title = {Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming},
	howpublished = {INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION},
	volume = {13},
	year = {2019},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {2082{\textendash}2084},
	publisher = {USC ANNENBERG PRESS},
	issn = {1932-8036},
	author = {Hargittai, E and Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2018blockchaincarnivalesque,
	title = {Blockchain infrastructures and their invisible carnivalesque},
	year = {2018},
	month = {Apr},
	publisher = {University of Munster},
	abstract = {At the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) workshop, Institut f{\"u}r Angewandte Informatik},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2018codingsociety,
	title = {Coding Space / Organizing Society},
	year = {2018},
	month = {Feb},
	publisher = {Dublin},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@conference {ziolkowski2018consensussettings,
	title = {Consensus through blockchains: Exploring Governance across inter-organizational Settings},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Information Systems 2018, ICIS 2018},
	year = {2018},
	month = {Jan},
	abstract = {{\textcopyright} International Conference on Information Systems 2018, ICIS 2018.All rights reserved. The blockchain technology challenges the view on established modes of governance by offering distributed authentication without the need for a central authority, which is well-exemplified by Bitcoin. While the governance of and through Bitcoin is well-accentuated in research, we spotlight impacts on governance which blockchain-based systems bring to inter-organizational settings as well as their purpose. To build our arguments, we explore those impacts on two contrasting cases from the domains of automotive and public administration and relate them to cryptocurrencies. Relying on interviews with experts from said organizations utilizing blockchain technology, and a content analysis of related grey literature, we discuss established forms of governance as well as platforms and infrastructures against the impacts which blockchain-based systems cause. After referring those to the concepts of markets, hierarchies, networks, and tribes, we critically reflect on their purpose by utilizing the notions of infrastructures and platforms, and conclude blockchain-based systems to possibly alter the way established modes of governance are enacted.},
	isbn = {9780996683173},
	author = {Ziolkowski, R and Miscione, G and Schwabe, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2018everythingask,
	title = {Everything you always wished to know about Bitcoin but never dared to ask},
	year = {2018},
	month = {Apr},
	publisher = {Goteborg},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2018governanceblockchain,
	title = {Governance "of" vs. "by" blockchain},
	year = {2018},
	publisher = {University of Munster},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2018informationpractice,
	title = {Information as practice},
	year = {2018},
	note = {Chaired Session},
	month = {Jul},
	publisher = {University of Warwick, UK},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2018practicescases,
	title = {Practices of digital visibility: Wikileaks and Snowden as global whistleblowing cases},
	year = {2018},
	note = {Invited Oral Presentation},
	month = {Apr},
	publisher = {Goteborg},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2018subthemeleadership,
	title = {Sub-theme 61: Smart and Liveable Cities: Organizing Urban Governance and Leadership},
	year = {2018},
	note = {Chaired Session},
	month = {Jul},
	publisher = {Tallinn, Estonia},
	abstract = {Contemporary narratives and discourses about managing, governing and developing cities could be divided into two competing streams. The first one (Smart Cities) is very prominent in mass media, tech companies and tech communities; whereas the second one (Liveable Cities) is mostly enacted on social media platforms, in cultural branding initiatives, social movements, grassroots initiatives, and (virtual) communities. Both streams struggle for getting a voice in the discourses as well as in mediascapes. Technology, planning and urban architecture have always been closely related in allowing and limiting both what can be controlled and what self-organizes and emerges in cities. Since the 1990s, urban and regional planning are enabled and constrained by information technologies and the narratives they become wrapped in. {\textquestiondown}Smart cities{\textquestiondown} and {\textquestiondown}liveable cities{\textquestiondown} make no exception since at least two distinct narratives polarize opinions and debates: one is derived from Spatial Data Infrastructures (top down, state led efforts); the other emerges from participation and user-generated content (social media, voluntary geographic information, e-governance systems, etc.). Smart cities seem to be leaning toward the former, but grass-root movements can be quite forceful in using alternative narratives and deploying technologies and open data accordingly. Cities can be analyzed as eco-systems that are emerging and developing in the context of global economy with new forms of organizing. In {\textquestiondown}city action nets{\textquestiondown}, organizing in general is an emergent property which illuminates new forms of connecting mechanisms (Czarniawska, 2002; 2014). Urban development is in this sense closely related to an understanding of leadership as social processes emerging through the interactions of multiple actors. {\textquestiondown}Relational leadership{\textquestiondown} (Uhl-Bien, 2006) and {\textquestiondown}distributed leadership{\textquestiondown} (Bolden, 2011) open up for self-organizing, thereby creating new opportunities in the way citizens are empowered when designing and co-creating their cities of today and tomorrow. In parallel, there is a search for new public governance approaches assembled by co-creative practices (Torfing \& Triantafillou, 2016). These approaches are often inspired by leadership concepts where leadership is seen as some kind of participatory democracy in democratic governance networks (S{\o}rensen \& Torfing, 2007). Urban research has also investigated avenues through which culture and creativity can raise the imaginative capability of citizens and harness opportunities tied to what can be called culture-driven growth. The success of co-creating urban strategies within and between the public sector, institutions, city administrations, political bodies, business, the civil society and not least the citizens seems very much dependent on a synthesis of bottom-up and top-down activities. This calls for a holistic approach that has the potential to foster involvement, to embrace both diversity and equality in communities and cities, and to cross institutional borders, e.g. by linking arts and other creative initiatives to co-creation (W{\r a}hlin et al., 2016). Our sub-theme is aiming at investigating the interrelation of the expected and the unexpected on the urban scale by looking at the sometimes surprising outcomes of the interplays of change and stability, innovation and technology, spaces and spacing, planning and creativity, organization and spontaneity. In order to broaden the predominant technological perspective on smart cities we invite theoretical as well as empirical papers investigating the role of all types of stakeholders when it comes to developing and enacting smart and livaeble cities. Papers may address, but are not limited to, research on the following themes and topics: Discursive construction of {\textquestiondown}Smart Cities{\textquestiondown}, {\textquestiondown}Agile Cities{\textquestiondown} and {\textquestiondown}Liveable Cities{\textquestiondown} Narrating and organizing the city in governance and organization Interplay between urban architecture, planning and organizing Interplay between urban governance, leadership and organizing Interplay between technology, communication and organizing The co-creative practices of new public governance The potential of creative, cultural and artistic interventions The (forgotten?) civil society and the (lost?) citizen References Bolden, R. (2011): {\textquestiondown}Distributed leadership in organizations: A review of theory and research.{\textquestiondown} International Journal of Management Reviews, 13, 251-269. Czarniawska, B. (2002): A Tale of Three Cities: Or the Glocalization of City Management. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Czarniawska, B. (2014): A theory of organizing. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. S{\o}rensen, E., \& Torfing, J. (eds.) (2007): Theories of Democratic Network Novernance. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. Torfing, J., \& P. Triantafillou (eds.) (2016): Enhancing Public Innovation by Public Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Uhl-Bien, M. (2006): {\textquestiondown}Relational leadership theory: exploring the social processes of leadership and organizing.{\textquestiondown} Leadership Quarterly, 17, 654{\textquestiondown}676. W{\r a}hlin, N., Kapsali, M., N{\"a}sholm, M.H., \& Blomquist, T. (2016): Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth: Co-Creating a European Capital of Culture. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.},
	author = {Miscione, G and Pogner, K-H and W{\r a}hlin, N}
}
@conference {miscione2018tribalauthentication,
	title = {Tribal Governance: The Business of Blockchain Authentication},
	year = {2018},
	note = {Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-51), Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, 3-6 January 2018},
	month = {Jan},
	publisher = {Urban Centre for Computation and Data},
	organization = {Urban Centre for Computation and Data},
	abstract = {The blockchain technology offers a novel mode of distributed authentication, which does not depend on a central authority. We consider this novelty against established governance modes. We illustrate our argument by paying special attention to blockchain-based authentication functions in the empirical domain of land registries across the world. Based on interviews with representatives from organizations deploying blockchain, and content analysis of related grey literature, we discuss established governance idealtypes against what the rivalry that cryptocurrencies and blockchains bring to digital settings. After referring to market, hierarchy, network, and bazaar, we conclude outlining the prospects of a different, blockchain-related governance mode called {\textquoteleft}tribal{\textquoteright} that better captures the {\textquoteleft}togetherness{\textquoteright} which rivalry originates.},
	author = {Miscione, G and Ziolkowski, R and Zavolokina, L and Schwabe, G}
}
@conference {miscione2018tribalstrategizingaspractice,
	title = {Tribal governance, the necessity of strategizing-as-practice},
	year = {2018},
	note = {Roundtable Participant},
	month = {Jul},
	publisher = {Tallinn, Estonia},
	organization = {Tallinn, Estonia},
	abstract = {Usual ideal-types of hierarchy and markets divide the modes of organizing into islands of planning or seas of market trades. Networks were proposed as a different ideal-type in which relations are not quantifiable and trust makes them sticky. Those ideal-types do not seem to work well to explain online practices. Contrary to the economy of scarcity, the Web, peer-to-peer, open source, Wikipedia derive from the economy of plenitude and originated the ideal-type of the bazaar. The last decade brought cryptocurrencies to the global audience. The underneath architecture (blockchain) offers a novel mode of distributed authentication, which guarantees scarcity (infinite money is not money) and avoids central authorities. None of the previous ideal-types seems to work here, so millions of actors, from small traders to central banks, are by necessity strategizing-as-practice. This mode of organizing can be called {\textquestiondown}tribal{\textquestiondown} because it captures the paradox of rivalry originating {\textquestiondown}togetherness{\textquestiondown}.},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2018understandingscenes,
	title = {Understanding transformations as they happen: Blockchain and cryptocurrency as {\textquoteright}scenes{\textquoteright}},
	year = {2018},
	note = {Invited Oral Presentation},
	month = {Apr},
	publisher = {Goteborg},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@inbook {martinez2017aconditions,
	title = {A Geographic and Mixed Methods Approach to Capture Unequal Quality-of-Life Conditions},
	booktitle = {HANDBOOK OF COMMUNITY WELL-BEING RESEARCH},
	series = {International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life},
	year = {2017},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {385{\textendash}402},
	publisher = {SPRINGER},
	organization = {SPRINGER},
	isbn = {978-94-024-0876-8},
	issn = {2468-7227},
	doi = {10.1007/978-94-024-0878-2_20},
	author = {Martinez, J and Verplanke, J and Miscione, G},
	editor = {Phillips, R and Wong, C}
}
@article {miscione2017narratingdata,
	title = {Narrating the Stories of Leaked Data},
	journal = {Discourse, Context \& Media},
	year = {2017},
	month = {Oct},
	publisher = {Elsevier BV},
	doi = {10.1016/j.dcm.2017.02.002},
	author = {Miscione, G and Landert, D}
}
@article {landert2017narratingsnowden,
	title = {Narrating the stories of leaked data: The changing role of journalists after Wikileaks and Snowden},
	journal = {Discourse, Context and Media},
	volume = {19},
	year = {2017},
	month = {Oct},
	pages = {13{\textendash}21},
	abstract = {{\textcopyright} 2017 Elsevier Ltd Traditionally, investigative journalists had a gatekeeping role between their confidential sources of information and the public sphere. Over the last two decades and with the arrival of new media, this role has been undergoing changes. Recent cases of whistleblowing, such as WikiLeaks and Snowden, illustrate how contemporary media allow individuals to release data directly to the global audience. This raises the question of how recent leaks affect how journalists operate. In this study we compare how The Guardian covered two cases of whistleblowing which are commonly referred to as WikiLeaks and Snowden. We analyze how access to leaked data is provided or facilitated on The Guardian website, how readers are invited to interact with these data and how journalists present their own activities. A qualitative analysis of the leading articles further shows how the stories are framed and how much prominence is given to the data and the various actors. The results show how the roles of journalists shift from gatekeeping to data management, interpretation, contextualisation and narration. Journalists may no longer be needed to publish leaked data but they are still needed to tell the stories of leaked data.},
	issn = {2211-6958},
	doi = {10.1016/j.dcm.2017.02.002},
	author = {Landert, D and Miscione, G}
}
@inbook {keenan2017spatialinfrastructure,
	title = {Spatial Data: Market and Infrastructure},
	booktitle = {Encyclopedia of GIS},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {2003{\textendash}2010},
	publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
	organization = {Springer International Publishing},
	isbn = {9783319178844},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_755},
	author = {Keenan, P and Miscione, G}
}
@article {miscione2017tribalauthentication,
	title = {Tribal Governance: The Business of Blockchain Authentication},
	journal = {SSRN Electronic Journal},
	year = {2017},
	publisher = {Elsevier BV},
	doi = {10.24251/HICSS.2018.566},
	author = {Miscione, G and Ziolkowski, R and Zavolokina, L and Schwabe, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2016blockchainenclosure,
	title = {Blockchain Authentication {\textendash} From Iron Cage to Silicon Enclosure?},
	year = {2016},
	month = {Mar},
	publisher = {University of Oxford, United Kingdom},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2016codingauthentication,
	title = {Coding Value and the Business of Authentication},
	year = {2016},
	month = {Feb},
	address = {Oxford},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2016ethnoresonancebitcoin,
	title = {Ethno-resonance as method: The curious case of Bitcoin},
	year = {2016},
	month = {Nov},
	publisher = {.},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@article {miscione2016mythunknown,
	title = {Myth, management of the unknown},
	journal = {Culture and Organization},
	volume = {22},
	number = {1},
	year = {2016},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {67{\textendash}87},
	abstract = {{\textcopyright} 2015 Taylor \& Francis. Since centuries, myth, progress, and technology have been interwoven in ways that explain the past and anticipate the future. The relevance of myths is not in being true or false, but in contributing to orienting social praxes, and thus in acting as a regulator of human behaviour in front of unknown consequences of today{\textquoteright}s decisions and actions. This is particularly evident in settings where the desire for progress is imported with technologies. The argument is developed by relying on qualitative research based on extensive fieldwork in Peru and India.},
	issn = {1475-9551},
	doi = {10.1080/14759551.2015.1092971},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@conference {miscionebitcoinheterotopia,
	title = {Bitcoin and the Blockchain: A Coup D{\textquoteright}Etat in Digital Heterotopia?},
	booktitle = {SSRN Electronic Journal},
	year = {2015},
	publisher = {Elsevier BV},
	organization = {Elsevier BV},
	doi = {10.2139/ssrn.2624922},
	author = {Miscione, G and Kavanagh, D}
}
@booklet {miscionetheauthentication,
	title = {The {\textquoteright}Business{\textquoteright} of Authentication},
	year = {2015},
	publisher = {Elsevier BV},
	doi = {10.2139/ssrn.2646859},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2015designingimpossible,
	title = {Designing the Impossible},
	year = {2015},
	month = {Apr},
	publisher = {Trinity College Dublin},
	url = {https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gianluca_Miscione/publication/274370581_TCD/links/551bf11f0cf20d5fbde229b5.pdf},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2015howprospects,
	title = {How come geographic information systems are peripheral in information systems research? Problems and prospects},
	year = {2015},
	month = {Jun},
	publisher = {M{\"u}nster University, Germany},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@article {roy2015phoneahmedabad,
	title = {Phone call elasticity of city travel in Ahmedabad},
	journal = {Travel Behaviour and Society},
	volume = {2},
	number = {1},
	year = {2015},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {15{\textendash}25},
	abstract = {{\textcopyright} 2014 Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies. The new era of Information and Communication Technologies ICT enables people to communicate and interact with each other in different manner, changing the way they conduct their lives. This change has significant implications on their physical travels. The relationship between ICTs and travel is complex and sometimes indirect. This paper aims to better understand this complex relationship by empirically analyzing the substitution versus additive effects of phone calls on physical distance traveled by individuals. This is done by analyzing the phone call elasticity of physical travel. The analysis also studies the relevance of social ties in Ahmedabad, India, as a source of explanation of social activity, thus travel, undertaken by individuals. Social Network Analysis (SNA) allows capturing social determinants that affect travel in a way socio-demographics do not capture. The phone call elasticities show a variation among different people which can be connected to the type of trips that are substituted. The substituted trips are related to the social networks of individuals. Decision makers can use this tool to designing their travel and ICT policies in a novel way.},
	issn = {2214-367X},
	doi = {10.1016/j.tbs.2014.07.001},
	author = {Roy, P and Zuidgeest, MHP and Martinez, JA and Miscione, G and van Maarseveen, MFAM}
}
@conference {keenan2015apost,
	title = {A postcode not for post},
	booktitle = {2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2015},
	year = {2015},
	month = {Jan},
	abstract = {Postcodes are some of the best established pieces of national spatial data infrastructures. Originally they were designed to facilitate postal delivery, but through the decades more and more organizational functions have been integrating postcodes as unique spatial identifiers. State organizations may use postcodes to classify areas under their jurisdictions for monitoring and service delivery purposes. Private organizations may rely on postcodes to integrate spatial analyses into their business functions. For several reasons, the Republic of Ireland does not have a full-fledged postcode and it is now in the process of implementing what is allegedly the most advanced postcode of the world. The postcode has an unheard of level of granularity: each letterbox will have its own unique identifier. The object of this study is the long process that is leading to this outcome, and it identifies the main stakeholders involved and their different interests in the process.},
	isbn = {9780996683104},
	author = {Keenan, P and Miscione, G and Berger, A}
}
@inbook {keenan2015spatialinfrastructure,
	title = {Spatial Data: Market and Infrastructure},
	booktitle = {Encyclopedia of GIS},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {1{\textendash}8},
	publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
	organization = {Springer International Publishing},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-23519-6_755-2},
	author = {Keenan, P and Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2014digitalpublics,
	title = {Digital Publics},
	year = {2014},
	month = {Jun},
	publisher = {National University of Ireland in Maynooth, Ireland},
	author = {Miscione, G and Coleman, G}
}
@conference {miscione2014plotsidentification,
	title = {Plots of Intelligence Surveillance-Dramas of Institutional Identification},
	year = {2014},
	note = {Recent revelations of intelligence surveillance are an unprecedented breakdown of contemporary communication functioning, therefore offer novel insights about how it has worked normally. The contrastive description of the Wikileaks and Snowden{\textquoteright}s events show unexpected paths to address responsibility and enact performativity globally. In both cases, hundreds of thousands of highly sensitive documents make their management significant in terms of how practices unfold on and beyond information infrastructures. The two cases engender two approaches to information management, one more closely derived from the original culture of the internet, the other sensitive to more broadly accepted social models. In this context, unearthing the usually invisible role that information infrastructures play in contemporary social praxes helps in recognizing how narratives can play a role in understanding online information and related action-nets, therefore broader social and political implications.},
	address = {Rotterdam, The Netherlands},
	abstract = {Recent revelations of intelligence surveillance are an unprecedented breakdown of contemporary communication functioning, therefore offer novel insights about how it has worked normally. The contrastive description of the Wikileaks and Snowden{\textquoteright}s events show unexpected paths to address responsibility and enact performativity globally. In both cases, hundreds of thousands of highly sensitive documents make their management significant in terms of how practices unfold on and beyond information infrastructures. The two cases engender two approaches to information management, one more closely derived from the original culture of the internet, the other sensitive to more broadly accepted social models. In this context, unearthing the usually invisible role that information infrastructures play in contemporary social praxes helps in recognizing how narratives can play a role in understanding online information and related action-nets, therefore broader social and political implications.},
	url = {http://researchrepository.ucd.ie/bitstream/handle/10197/5708/Intelligence-Plots.pdf?sequence=1},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@article {hayes2013editorialeditorial,
	title = {Editorial},
	journal = {Information Systems Journal},
	volume = {23},
	number = {4},
	year = {2013},
	month = {Jul},
	pages = {281{\textendash}285},
	issn = {1350-1917},
	doi = {10.1111/isj.12014},
	author = {Hayes, N and Miscione, G and Silva, L and Westrup, C}
}
@conference {harvey2013irreductionallyuniversals,
	title = {Irreductionally Real Information Infrastructures: Practices beyond Universals},
	booktitle = {GI_FORUM 2013: CREATING THE GISOCIETY},
	year = {2013},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {349{\textendash}354},
	publisher = {Salzburg, AUSTRIA},
	organization = {Salzburg, AUSTRIA},
	doi = {10.1553/giscience2013s349},
	author = {Harvey, F and Miscione, G},
	editor = {Jekel, T and Car, A and Strobl, J and Griesebner, G}
}
@conference {miscione2013opennessconsequences,
	title = {Openness may not Mean Democratization - e-Grievance Systems in their Consequences},
	year = {2013},
	publisher = {University of Twente},
	organization = {University of Twente},
	address = {Enschede},
	author = {Miscione, G and Pfeffer, K and Martinez, J and De{\textquoteright}, R}
}
@booklet {hayesoverflowsmpesa,
	title = {Overflows of Technological Innovation in Emerging Economies: The Case of M-Pesa},
	year = {2013},
	publisher = {Elsevier BV},
	doi = {10.2139/ssrn.2617305},
	author = {Hayes, N and Miscione, G and Westrup, C}
}
@booklet {miscione2012cyberfactoriesnews,
	title = {Cyberfactories - How News Agencies Produce News},
	howpublished = {Information Technology \&amp; People},
	volume = {25},
	number = {4},
	year = {2012},
	month = {Nov},
	pages = {438{\textendash}440},
	issn = {0959-3845},
	doi = {10.1108/09593841211278811},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@inbook {miscione2012makingcontext,
	title = {Making sustainable open source software infrastructures by federating and learning in the global context},
	year = {2012},
	month = {Dec},
	publisher = {United Nations Publications},
	organization = {United Nations Publications},
	doi = {10.18356/fa0eb4e5-en},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@article {miscionemakingcontext,
	title = {Making Sustainable Open Source Software Infrastructures by Federating and Learning in the Global Context},
	journal = {SSRN Electronic Journal},
	year = {2012},
	publisher = {Elsevier BV},
	doi = {10.2139/ssrn.2617245},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@article {miscioneopenness,
	title = {OPENNESS MAY NOT MEAN DEMOCRATIZATION},
	year = {2012},
	author = {Miscione, G and Pfeffer, K and Martinez, J and De, R}
}
@booklet {miscione2012relocatingsouth,
	title = {Relocating Science and Technology - Global Knowledge, Traveling Technologies and Postcolonialism. Perspectives on Science and Technology Studies in the Global South},
	year = {2012},
	month = {Jul},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2012spatialdublin,
	title = {Spatial Data Infrastructure and Human Sensor Web (University College Dublin)},
	year = {2012},
	month = {Feb},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@inbook {devries2012thegeodata,
	title = {The tool that has to build itself: The case of Dutch geo-data},
	volume = {7443 LNCS},
	year = {2012},
	month = {Sep},
	pages = {137{\textendash}148},
	abstract = {Standardisation is one of tools of Electronic Government (EGov). It refers to the development where individuals and organizations develop and/or adhere to standard IT solutions and associated work processes. Studies on standardization in information technology (IT) emphasize either only the technical side of standard construction (the {\textquoteright}what{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteright}how{\textquoteright}), or the socio-organizational side of the contextual processes in which standards emerge (the {\textquoteright}who{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteright}when{\textquoteright}). Our article has an alternative, socio-technical, approach, which emphasizes {\textquoteright}where{\textquoteright} standards crystallize. Our empirical field to find where crystallization occurs concerns the geoIT sector. Through a qualitative approach, the data show that standard crystallization occurs at the hubs of inter-organizational relations, rather than at the top or the bottom of formal organizations. This claim is important because it contradicts the common strategy of standardization, which is largely centralized. Even though government has centralized the creation and distribution of geoIT standards, their actual creation and crystallization occurs at a more decentralized level: across municipalities. The conclusion is that bringing the standardization discussion to a point of where standardization actually happens, provides a better understanding of the socio-technical dynamic of governance of inter-organizational IT. {\textcopyright} 2012 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.},
	isbn = {9783642334887},
	issn = {0302-9743},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-33489-4_12},
	author = {De Vries, WT and Miscione, G}
}
@article {roy2012using,
	title = {Using social network analysis to profile people based on their e-communication and travel balance},
	journal = {Journal of Transport Geography},
	volume = {24},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {111{\textendash}122},
	publisher = {Pergamon},
	author = {Roy, P and Mart{\'{\i}nez, AJ and Miscione, G and Zuidgeest, MHP and van Maarseveen, MFAM}
}
@article {roy2012usingbalance,
	title = {Using Social Network Analysis to profile people based on their e-communication and travel balance},
	journal = {Journal of Transport Geography},
	volume = {24},
	year = {2012},
	month = {Sep},
	pages = {111{\textendash}122},
	abstract = {The new era of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) enables people to communicate and interact with each other in new and different manners, changing the way they conduct their daily lives. This change inevitably has significant implications for physical travel in the age of electronic communication (e-communication). This paper aims to provide greater insight into people{\textquoteright}s travel behavior based on their e-Communication to Travel balance (C/. T balance). This balance represents the ratio between an individual{\textquoteright}s e-communication and physical travel. The analysis studies the relevance of social ties in Ahmedabad, India, as a source of explanation of social activity, thus travel, undertaken by individuals. It is hypothesized that the C/. T balance emerges from an individual{\textquoteright}s social network characteristics. The ability of an individual to engage in social activities not only depends on the individual{\textquoteright}s socioeconomic and lifestyle attributes, but also on the {\textquoteright}modality{\textquoteright} of such interactions (e.g. physical travel or e-communication). The different modalities create different social networks. Each network represents a particular flow of potential activity travel generated by interaction between the individuals. These networks have been clustered on the basis of their C/. T balance to get distinct people{\textquoteright}s profiles that can be used to target transport and ICT policies better. {\textcopyright} 2011 Elsevier Ltd.},
	issn = {0966-6923},
	doi = {10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2011.09.005},
	author = {Roy, P and Mart{\'\i}nez, AJ and Miscione, G and Zuidgeest, MHP and van Maarseveen, MFAM}
}
@booklet {miscione2012wavesresearch,
	title = {Waves of Infrastructure Making: Winds of Change and Streams of Research},
	year = {2012},
	month = {Oct},
	publisher = {University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom},
	abstract = {Innovation in Information Infrastructures},
	doi = {10.13140/2.1.1113.7923},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@conference {roy2011clusteringcharacteristics,
	title = {Clustering people based on their social network, locational and socio-demographic characteristics},
	year = {2011},
	author = {Roy, P and Mart{\'\i}nez, AJ and Miscione, G and Zuidgeest, MHP}
}
@article {miscione2011egovernanceindia,
	title = {E-governance for Development: A Focus on Rural India},
	journal = {PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES},
	volume = {11},
	number = {1},
	year = {2011},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {81{\textendash}82},
	publisher = {SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC},
	issn = {1464-9934},
	doi = {10.1177/146499341001100108},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {georgiadou2011enewsletterenewsletter,
	title = {e-Newsletter},
	year = {2011},
	author = {Georgiadou, Y and Miscione, G}
}
@inbook {richter2011enlistingdeclaration,
	title = {Enlisting SDI for urban planning in India: Local practices in the case of slum declaration},
	booktitle = {Spatial Data Infrastructures in Context: North and South},
	year = {2011},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {157{\textendash}179},
	abstract = {{\textcopyright} 2011 by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. Initiatives to develop spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) have been taken up since the early 1990s in many countries around the world, including India. However, the spirit of global SDI convergence that dominated the 2009 GSDI conference is more of an aim for the future than an empirically grounded phenomenon. Whether or how {\textquotedblleft}the walls of SDI are coming down{\textquotedblright} (Van Loenen, Besemer, and Zevenbergen 2009, pp. 1-2) remains to be seen. It is also too soon to conclude that these initiatives automatically and unequivocally lead to wider societal benefits.},
	isbn = {9781138077669},
	author = {Richter, C and Miscione, G and De{\textquoteright}, R and Pfeffer, K}
}
@booklet {miscione2011globalsensors,
	title = {Global Visibility and Local Accountability - Making Sense Out of (Human) Sensors},
	year = {2011},
	month = {Jan},
	publisher = {ETH Zurich},
	address = {Switzerland},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@article {miscione2011madon9780230201576,
	title = {Madon, S. 2009: E-governance for Development: A Focus on Rural India. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. {\textsterling}55 cloth. ISBN 9780230201576},
	journal = {Progress in Development Studies},
	volume = {11},
	number = {1},
	year = {2011},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {81{\textendash}82},
	issn = {1464-9934},
	doi = {10.1177/146499341001100108},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@article {martinezparticipatorytransformation,
	title = {Participatory geographic information systems and land planning life experiences for people empowerment and community transformation},
	year = {2011},
	url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318542995_PGIS_Participatory_geographic_information_systems_and_land_planning_life_experiences_for_people_empowerment_and_community_transformation},
	author = {Martinez, MMC and Miscione, G and Olivarez, E}
}
@article {depaoli2011relationalitytogether,
	title = {Relationality in geoIT software development: How data structures and organization perform together},
	journal = {Computers, Environment and Urban Systems},
	volume = {35},
	number = {2},
	year = {2011},
	month = {Mar},
	pages = {173{\textendash}182},
	abstract = {Constructivism in geo-information science has emphasized what happens to geo-information technologies (geoIT) after the design stage, when systems and applications are used in real life. Current constructivist views, however, have focused less on other aspects such as software development practices. This paper adopts a similar constructivist epistemology, but looks at how geoIT and people are entangled in the development stages. We discuss the case of the migration of GIS software to Free and Open Source license. This case provides clear empirical evidence of the entanglement of humans and artifacts during the development of GIS technologies. Through an analysis of archived material (such as mailing lists), and of the software code, the paper describes how the integration of a new software (the library Fast Fourier Transformation in the West) was hindered by the different data structures of the original GIS and the new software. The case study we propose shows how actual software development practices may contrast with the well-established rhetoric of technical efficiency of the algorithms. In addition this choice also illustrates the organizational aspects of developing GIS and the different weights that are given to computational resources and organizational resources. {\textcopyright} 2010 Elsevier Ltd.},
	issn = {0198-9715},
	doi = {10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2010.09.003},
	author = {De Paoli, S and Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {duncombe2011reviewernorway,
	title = {Reviewer Institution Irwin Brown University of Cape Town, South Africa Robert Davison City University of Hong Kong Marisa D{\textquoteright}Mello University of Oslo, Norway},
	howpublished = {Information Technology for Development},
	volume = {17},
	number = {1},
	year = {2011},
	pages = {89{\textendash}89},
	author = {Duncombe, R and Grimson, J and Harindranath, G and Hayes, N and Heeks, R and Jolliffe, B and Lotriet, H and Miscione, G and Stanforth, CM and Staring, K}
}
@booklet {miscione2011sdiyet,
	title = {SDI in North and South-a full circle yet?},
	year = {2011},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {221{\textendash}232},
	abstract = {{\textcopyright} 2011 by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the notion of spatial data infrastructure (SDI) has inspired different organizations to share geospatial data and achieve seamless integration. After nearly two decades, incidentally overlapping with the Internet age, this vision has gained global acceptance (Homburg and Georgiadou 2009; Masser 2010) and is confirmed by the growing participation in the Global SDI Association{\textquoteright}s conferences. However, the meaning of SDI in terms of implementation and use has become more fragmented. In spite of a general understanding of SDIs as ways to facilitate access to and use of geospatial data, it is difficult to find wide agreement on a more precise definition of SDI (Grus, Crompvoets, and Bregt 2010).},
	isbn = {9781138077669},
	author = {Miscione, G and Vandenbroucke, D}
}
@article {georgiadou2011sensorsafrica,
	title = {Sensors, empowerment, and accountability: A digital earth view from East Africa},
	journal = {International Journal of Digital Earth},
	volume = {4},
	number = {4},
	year = {2011},
	month = {Jul},
	pages = {285{\textendash}304},
	abstract = {Several innovative {\textquoteright}participatory sensing{\textquoteright} initiatives are under way in East Africa. They can be seen as local manifestations of the global notion of Digital Earth. The initiatives aim to amplify the voice of ordinary citizens, improve citizens{\textquoteright} capacity to directly influence public service delivery and hold local government accountable. The popularity of these innovations is, among other things, a local reaction to the partial failure of the millennium development goals (MDGs) to deliver accurate statistics on public services in Africa. Empowered citizens, with access to standard mobile phones, can {\textquoteright}sense{\textquoteright} via text messages and report failures in the delivery of local government services. The public disclosure of these reports on the web and other mass media may pressure local authorities to take remedial action. In this paper, we outline the potential and research challenges of a {\textquoteright}participatory sensing{\textquoteright} platform, which we call a {\textquoteright}human sensor web.{\textquoteright} Digital Africa{\textquoteright}s first priority could be to harness continent-wide and national data as well as local information resources, collected by citizens, in order to monitor, measure and forecast MDGs. {\textcopyright} 2011 Taylor \&Francis.},
	issn = {1753-8947},
	doi = {10.1080/17538947.2011.585184},
	author = {Georgiadou, Y and Bana, B and Becht, R and Hoppe, R and Ikingura, J and Kraak, MJ and Lance, K and Lemmens, R and Lungo, JH and Mccall, M and Miscione, G and Verplanke, J}
}
@inbook {miscione2011shiftinggrowth,
	title = {Shifting Legitimation along Information Infrastructures Growth},
	booktitle = {Knowledge Development and Social Change through Technology},
	year = {2011},
	pages = {195{\textendash}205},
	publisher = {IGI Global},
	organization = {IGI Global},
	abstract = {<jats:p>This chapter addresses the institutional dimension of scaling of information systems through the interplay of globally distributed software development with organizational processes. Through examining various phases of a long term project to implement information systems for the public health care sector in global South countries, I highlight changing sources of acceptance and legitimation. The analysis centers on the balance between local and global levels, from pilot sites, through an emerging broader organizational field, to increasingly involving national level institutional settings. In parallel to the established view of the scaling of ICT implementations as relating to complexity and risk in the form of unintended side-effects of the growth of a system, the chapter highlights the qualitative switch between regulatory contexts. Shifting relations to local institutions means that scalability requires actors to interact with quite different organizational cultures, accountabilities and communicative practices.</jats:p>},
	isbn = {9781609605070},
	doi = {10.4018/978-1-60960-507-0.ch015},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2011angeoit,
	title = {AN STS VIEW ON GEO-IT},
	year = {2011},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@inbook {miscione2011telemedicineamazon,
	title = {Telemedicine and development: Situating information technologies in the Amazon},
	volume = {3},
	number = {4},
	year = {2011},
	month = {Oct},
	pages = {15{\textendash}26},
	abstract = {This study is based on an ethnographic study of a telemedicine system implemented in Northeastern Peru. This system connects a hospital in the Upper Amazon with health care facilities scattered throughout that area of the jungle. Patients{\textquoteright} transport through the physical nodes of the public health care system relied on rivers and wooden boats, but voice and data can now flow directly through channels apart from the existing health care organization. The time required to reach a doctor might previously have been the travel distance for different medicines served as a justification for people not to follow new ways to recovery. After the implementation of telemedicine, the effectiveness of medical talks depends on the ability to understand each other. Locally there is no single health care practice that is believed to be the right one: patients follow different paths for recovery through traditional and biomedical treatments. Thus, the diverse social environment affects both directly and indirectly the use of the telemedicine system, which evolves accordingly with how public healthcare service is perceived and used. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2011, IGI Global.},
	issn = {1941-6253},
	doi = {10.4018/jskd.2011100102},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@article {miscione2011awarming,
	title = {A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming},
	journal = {SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY},
	volume = {38},
	number = {4},
	year = {2011},
	month = {May},
	pages = {332{\textendash}333},
	publisher = {OXFORD UNIV PRESS},
	issn = {0302-3427},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {georgiadou2010theagendas,
	title = {The Citizen Edge: using Virtual Globes to Improve Participation in Setting Policy Agendas},
	year = {2010},
	publisher = {.},
	author = {Georgiadou, Y and Verplanke, J and Miscione, G and Martinez, J}
}
@inbook {verplanke2010citizenegovernment,
	title = {Citizen surveillance of the state: A mirror for egovernment?},
	volume = {328},
	year = {2010},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {185{\textendash}201},
	abstract = {{\textcopyright} IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2010. This paper discusses, conceptually and empirically, the role of geographic ICT (geoICT) and virtual globes (e.g. Google Earth) at the interface of public policy and citizens. Our preliminary findings from on-going field work in an Indian city and in Zanzibar suggest that virtual globe technology can potentially transfer to citizens surveillance power, traditionally held by the government. Starting from the traditional electronic government framework, where bureaucracy acts as a filter between policy makers and citizens with grievances, we outline an emerging framework where commercial virtual globes act as mediators between policy-makers and citizens. We show that the emerging framework holds the potential of allowing citizens concerned, in our case, about the quality of water services, to influence policy makers directly. The virtual globe acts as a mirror to the traditional eGovernment framework and lends a different societal visibility both to public services provision, and to localized citizens{\textquoteright} needs.},
	isbn = {9783642154782},
	issn = {1868-4238},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-15479-9_19},
	author = {Verplanke, J and Martinez, J and Miscione, G and Georgiadou, Y and Coleman, D and Hassan, AA}
}
@article {verplankecitizenegovernment,
	title = {Citizen Surveillance of the State: A Mirror for eGovernment?},
	journal = {SSRN Electronic Journal},
	year = {2010},
	publisher = {Elsevier BV},
	doi = {10.2139/ssrn.2617208},
	author = {Verplanke, J and Martinez, J and Miscione, G and Georgiadou, Y and Coleman, D and Hassan, AA}
}
@article {richter2010conceptualizingdevelopment,
	title = {Conceptualizing people in SDI literature: Implications for SDI research and development.},
	journal = {Int. J. Spatial Data Infrastructures Res.},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {286{\textendash}325},
	author = {Richter, C and Miscione, G and Georgiadou, Y}
}
@article {miscione2010experimentingprices,
	title = {Experimenting GeoInformation Prices},
	journal = {Workshop Proceedings},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {63{\textendash}63},
	author = {Miscione, G and de Vries, W and Zevenbergen, J and van Loenen, B}
}
@inbook {miscione2010acontexts,
	title = {A FEDERATIVE VIEW FOR INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES IN DEVELOPING CONTEXTS},
	booktitle = {.},
	year = {2010},
	publisher = {.},
	organization = {.},
	address = {.},
	author = {Miscione, G and Georgiadou, Y and Staring, K}
}
@article {kimppa2010freeconsequences,
	title = {Free and Open Source Software in developing contexts: From open in principle to open in the consequences},
	journal = {Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society},
	volume = {8},
	number = {1},
	year = {2010},
	month = {Mar},
	pages = {42{\textendash}56},
	abstract = {Purpose {\textendash} Originating in the USA and Northern Europe, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) found on the internet its fertile environment. In more recent years, FOSS is becoming an increasingly important element in strategies for development and implementation of information and communication technologies also in developing countries. Mainstream research on FOSS has catered to the underlying principles or freedom, open organizational forms, and on its economical aspects. The purpose of this paper is to shed new light on the actual consequences of FOSS, often left in the background. Design/methodology/approach {\textendash} The paper examines where FOSS principles{\textquoteright} assumptions are likely to be more evident: in contexts of developing countries, which are geographically and organizationally far from the original environment of FOSS. A mixed methodology characterizes this work: quantitative and qualitative methods bring readers{\textquoteright} attention to unusual empirical settings and downplayed organizational processes of information technology (IT) implementation and adoption. Findings {\textendash} The consequences of FOSS on IT implementation and actual use are ambivalent. It is argued that FOSS adoption does not happen spontaneously, neither by decree, and that the relevance of open technologies as public goods remains in the different role of local actual technical and organizational capabilities, and environment conditions. Originality/value {\textendash} Such a focus complements existing studies on the economical relevance of FOSS, which are not the focus of this paper. {\textcopyright} 2010, Emerald Group Publishing Limited},
	issn = {1477-996X},
	doi = {10.1108/14779961011024800},
	author = {Kimppa, K and Miscione, G and Johnston, K}
}
@article {kandwal2010geospatialindia,
	title = {Geospatial analysis of HIV-Related social stigma: A study of tested females across mandals of Andhra Pradesh in India},
	journal = {International Journal of Health Geographics},
	volume = {9},
	year = {2010},
	month = {Apr},
	abstract = {Background: In Geographical Information Systems issues of scale are of an increasing interest in storing health data and using these in policy support. National and international policies on treating HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) positive women in India are based on case counts at Voluntary Counseling and Testing Centers (VCTCs). In this study, carried out in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, these centers are located in subdistricts called mandals, serving for both registration and health facility policies. This study hypothesizes that people may move to a mandal different than their place of residence for being tested for reasons of stigma. Counts of a single mandal therefore may include cases from inside and outside a mandal. HIV counts were analyzed on the presence of outside cases and the most likely explanations for movement. Counts of women being tested on a practitioners{\textquoteright} referral (REFs) and those directly walking-in at testing centers (DWs) were compared and with counts of pregnant women.Results: At the mandal level incidence among REFs is on the average higher than among DWs. For both groups incidence is higher in the South-Eastern coastal zones, being an area with a dense highway network and active port business. A pattern on the incidence maps was statistically confirmed by a cluster analysis. A spatial regression analysis to explain the differences in incidence among pregnant women and REFs shows a negative relation with the number of facilities and a positive relation with the number of roads in a mandal. Differences in incidence among pregnant women and DWs are explained by the same variables, and by a negative relation with the number of neighboring mandals. Based on the assumption that pregnant women are tested in their home mandal, this provides a clear indication that women move for testing as well as clues for explanations why.Conclusions: The spatial analysis shows that women in India move towards a different mandal for getting tested on HIV. Given the scale of study and different types of movements involved, it is difficult to say where they move to and what the precise effect is on HIV registration. Better recording the addresses of tested women may help to relate HIV incidence to population present within a mandal. This in turn may lead to a better incidence count and therefore add to more reliable policy making, e.g. for locating or expanding health facilities. {\textcopyright} 2010 Kandwal et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.},
	doi = {10.1186/1476-072X-9-18},
	author = {Kandwal, R and Augustijn, EW and Stein, A and Miscione, G and Garg, PK and Garg, RD}
}
@article {miscione2010globetrottingsystems,
	title = {Globetrotting Health Information Systems},
	journal = {Journal of Health Informatics in Developing Countries},
	volume = {4},
	number = {1},
	year = {2010},
	author = {Miscione, G and Damtew, Z and Molla, S and {\O}stmo, IE and Staring, K and S{\ae}bo, J and Sun, V}
}
@booklet {miscione2010misqarchivist,
	title = {MISQ Archivist},
	year = {2010},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2010prospectivasmonedas,
	title = {Prospectivas y consecuencias de la progresiva desvinculaci{\'o}n de estados y monedas},
	year = {2010},
	abstract = {Las monedas son intr{\'\i}nseca a los modos de la organizaci{\'o}n. De hecho, los mercados basados ​​en transacciones monetarias, son una de las formas ideal-t{\'\i}picas de organizaci{\'o}n que Powell (1990) analiza junto con las jerarqu{\'\i}as y redes. Como no todas las relaciones sociales est{\'a}n regulados por el dinero, la econom{\'\i}a puede ser vista como el aglomerado de lo que medie dinero. Por lo tanto, cuando el dinero cambia, las relaciones sociales son susceptibles de cambiar. Como el soci{\'o}logo de dinero, Nigel Dodd, lo ha dicho, "Todo el dinero que tiene un orden imaginario social" (Dodd 2015), una idea que se basa en la afirmaci{\'o}n de Simmel que el dinero es un "claim upon society". Com{\'u}nmente eso se entiende como una demanda sobre el estado, aunque monedas como el Euro y Bitcoin no se refieren a un estado particular. Nuevas formas de dinero son relativamente raras, y por lo tanto estas dos nuevas monedas ofrecen una oportunidad {\'u}nica para estudiar y analizar nuevas formas de relaci{\'o}n social. Empezando con el estado, hay cinco aspectos relevantes: i) el monopolio de la violencia, ii) el principio de no interferencia, iii) dinero de F{\'\i}at, iv) la burocracia, v) estad{\'\i}sticas. Usare{\textquoteright} estas para discutir las nuevas monedas con los estudiantes.},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@article {vries2010relationalitynetworks,
	title = {Relationality in Geo-Information value. Price as product of socio-technical networks.},
	journal = {Int. J. Spatial Data Infrastructures Res.},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {77{\textendash}95},
	author = {Vries, WTD and Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2010technologyinstitute,
	title = {Technology as Rorschach: Stage and Backstage of the Making of an Information Infrastructure (Max Planck Institute)},
	year = {2010},
	month = {Nov},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@inbook {morawczynski2010trustworthykenya,
	title = {Trustworthy mobile transactions: A longitudinal study of M-PESA in Kenya},
	booktitle = {Trust and Technology in a Ubiquitous Modern Environment: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives},
	year = {2010},
	month = {Dec},
	pages = {160{\textendash}173},
	abstract = {This chapter will focus on one vital determinant of m-banking adoption and use-trust relations. It presents the case of M-PESA, an m-banking application that quickly achieved a remarkable local embeddedness in large segments of Kenyan society. Data for this case was gathered during a fourteen month ethnographic study that took place in two locations-one urban and one rural. The chapter identifies four categories of trust (interpersonal, extended, presumptive, institutional) that were a prerequisite for mobile banking, and a lubricant for its sustainability and growth. It shows that institutional trust relations were strong during the early stages of adoption whilst the interpersonal ones were weak. This means that customers trusted Safaricom, the mobile service provider offering M-PESA. They did not, however, trust the agents that facilitated cash in and cash out. The chapter also gives attention to the changing nature of these relations through time. For example, it shows that interpersonal trust relations between customers and agents strengthened with increased interaction. The chapter concludes by identifying areas for future research and delineating recommendations for managers. {\textcopyright} 2010, IGI Global.},
	isbn = {9781615209019},
	doi = {10.4018/978-1-61520-901-9.ch010},
	author = {Morawczynski, O and Miscione, G}
}
@conference {georgiadou2009aperspectives,
	title = {A bigger picture: information systems and spatial data infrastructure research perspectives},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th AGILE international conference on geographic information science: Spatial Data Infrastructure Convergence: Building SDI Bridges to Address Global Challenges},
	year = {2009},
	url = {http://www.gsdi.orgwww.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi11/papers/pdf/266.pdf},
	author = {Georgiadou, Y and Harvey, F and Miscione, G}
}
@article {georgiadou2009framingperspectives,
	title = {Framing the use of geo-information in government: A tale of two perspectives},
	journal = {Earth Science Informatics},
	volume = {2},
	number = {4},
	year = {2009},
	month = {Dec},
	pages = {271{\textendash}282},
	abstract = {While commercial virtual globes (e. g. Google Earth) and global scientific cyber-infrastructures (e. g. Digital Earth) are revolutionizing the way we use and produce geo-information, we still lack a rich conceptual understanding of how genuine human actors use geo-information and associated technologies in real work settings. In this paper, we conceptualize the use of geo-information as encompassing people{\textquoteright}s actual use practices, the values to which people aspire through geo-information use, and the rules that either legally prescribe or just encourage optimal use. Values, practices and rules can be illuminated from two perspectives (or lenses), the market and the polis, resulting in radically different insights on the use of geo-information as a social phenomenon. We argue that with a polis lens we stand a chance to explain how authentic human actors, groups and communities with different values, interests and motivations use geo-information, and how societal benefits materialize or not as a result. Seen from a polis lens, values are not easily measurable standards of goodness, dominant public management ideas can be the source of technical-organizational change in government while policies can be fruitfully examined as persuasive arguments to target audiences. With a polis lens, we are more likely to understand the emergence of new practices, value contests and global rules underpinning commercial virtual globes and scientific cyber-infrastructures. {\textcopyright} Springer-Verlag 2009.},
	issn = {1865-0473},
	doi = {10.1007/s12145-009-0036-5},
	author = {Georgiadou, Y and Miscione, G and Lance, K and de Vries, W}
}
@booklet {georgiadou2009geoictgovernance,
	title = {Geo-ICT in public governance},
	year = {2009},
	month = {Aug},
	author = {Georgiadou, Y and Miscione, G}
}
@article {miscione2009hegemoniesprocesses,
	title = {Hegemonies in Classification Processes},
	journal = {Special Issue of the International Sociological Association publication, Research Committee on Language and Society},
	volume = {6},
	number = {2},
	year = {2009},
	author = {Miscione, G and Landert, D}
}
@article {miscione2009hegemonies,
	title = {Hegemonies in classification processes: introduction},
	journal = {In: ISA-RC 25 Newsletter: Language and Society},
	year = {2009},
	author = {Miscione, G and Landert, D}
}
@conference {sun2009informationopportunity,
	title = {Information infrastructure governance and windows of opportunity},
	booktitle = {17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009},
	year = {2009},
	month = {Dec},
	abstract = {In this paper we discuss the challenges of managing large-scale information infrastructures. Various management models, such as the IT governance model, propose structured approaches for management of an organization{\textquoteright}s infrastructure. This paper argues both theoretically and empirically that such an approach to information infrastructure governance has its limitations. The paper is based on empirical material from three change processes in information infrastructures in the context of health care. We present case vignettes that illustrate how these processes evolved along unexpected trajectories, subject to factors beyond the control of management. To conceptualize these phenomena we draw on literature that conceptualize change as emerging from the meeting between multiple parallel streams of activities. The interactions between the various streams open up windows of opportunities that affect the information infrastructure development. We argue that such conceptualizations more realistically depict how large-scale information infrastructures evolve, and hence how they can be (or not be) managed.},
	isbn = {9788861293915},
	author = {Sun, V and Aanestad, M and Skorve, E and Miscione, G}
}
@article {vries2009measuringgeoinformation,
	title = {Measuring the Unmeasured-The Value of Geo-Information},
	journal = {International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research},
	year = {2009},
	author = {Vries, WTD and Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2009openeconomics,
	title = {Open Source Development and Innovation (London School of Economics)},
	year = {2009},
	month = {Apr},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {sun2009panelproduction,
	title = {Panel: Regulation and governance in commons-based peer (social) production},
	year = {2009},
	author = {Sun, V and Aanestad, M and Skorve, E and Miscione, G}
}
@conference {kolte2009aindia,
	title = {A Proposal for studying Decision-making and Spatial Data Infrastructures in the Public Sector in India},
	year = {2009},
	author = {Kolte, P and Boerboom, L and Miscione, G and Georgiadou, Y}
}
@article {miscione2009shiftinglegitimation,
	title = {Shifting ground for health information systems: Local Embeddedness, Global Fields, and Legitimation},
	journal = {International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development},
	volume = {1},
	number = {4},
	year = {2009},
	month = {Oct},
	pages = {1{\textendash}12},
	abstract = {This article addresses the institutional scaling of information systems through the interplay of globally distributed free and open source software development with organizational processes. Through examining various phases of a long term project to implement information systems for the public health care sector in resource-poor countries, we highlight changing sources of acceptance and legitimation. The analysis centers on the balance between local and global levels, from pilot sites, through an emerging broader organizational field, to increasingly involving national level institutional settings. In parallel to the established view of the scaling of ICT implementations as relating to complexity and risk in the form of unintended side-effects of the growth of a system, the authors highlight the qualitative switch between regulatory contexts. Shifting relations to local institutions means that scalability requires actors to interact with quite different organizational cultures, accountabilities and communicative practices. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2009, IGI Global.},
	issn = {1941-6253},
	doi = {10.4018/jskd.2009062601},
	author = {Miscione, G and Staring, K}
}
@conference {richter2008designdevelopment,
	title = {Design of an unbounded ethnography of spatial information infrastructure development},
	year = {2008},
	author = {Richter, C and Miscione, G and Pfeffer, K and Georgiadou, Y}
}
@inbook {morawczynski2008examiningkenya,
	title = {Examining trust in mobile banking transactions: The case of M-PESA in Kenya},
	volume = {282},
	year = {2008},
	month = {Sep},
	pages = {287{\textendash}298},
	abstract = {This chapter examines how trust can emerge and be sustained in the context of mobile transactions. It focuses on M-PESA, a mobile banking system in Kenya, using data from an ethnographic study that was deployed in Kibera - one of Africa{\textquoteright}s largest slums. We present research in progress and discuss two main findings. Firstly, interpersonal trust relations between the customers and agents are weak. Customers do not trust the agents with their money. Secondly, the institutional trust relations between the customer and Safaricom, the mobile service provider offering M-PESA, are strong. This means that customers use the M-PESA service because they believe that their money will be kept safe by Safaricom. After providing empirical evidence to substantiate these claims, this study concludes by suggesting questions for future research. {\textcopyright} 2008 International Federation for Information Processing.},
	isbn = {9780387848211},
	issn = {1571-5736},
	doi = {10.1007/978-0-387-84822-8_19},
	author = {Morawczynski, O and Miscione, G}
}
@inbook {miscione2008freeproperties,
	title = {Free and Open Source Software in low-income countries: Emergent properties?},
	volume = {282},
	year = {2008},
	month = {Sep},
	pages = {351{\textendash}355},
	abstract = {Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is becoming an increasingly important element in strategies for development and implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in low-income countries (LICs). Such initiatives often have strong public sector orientation, as government ICT policies are expected to shape and support further socio-economical development. The usual mismatch between bureaucracies and trajectories of development initiatives (mostly run by international agencies) provides a promising field for empirical research. {\textcopyright} 2008 International Federation for Information Processing.},
	isbn = {9780387848211},
	issn = {1571-5736},
	doi = {10.1007/978-0-387-84822-8_24},
	author = {Miscione, G and Gordon, D and Johnston, K}
}
@conference {miscione2008networksfederations,
	title = {Networks of Action and Health Information Infrastructure: enabling Federations},
	booktitle = {Theme: Towards an ICT Research Agenda for African Development},
	year = {2008},
	pages = {36{\textendash}36},
	author = {Miscione, G and Staring, K and Kanjo, C}
}
@inbook {miscione2008organizationalsoftware,
	title = {Organizational learning in health care: Situating free and open source software},
	volume = {267},
	year = {2008},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {372{\textendash}373},
	abstract = {Free and open source software (FOSS) has been attracting the interest of organizations involved in the development and implementation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in developing countries for years. ICTs for development initiatives often have public sector orientations, as governments{\textquoteright} ICT policies are expected to shape and support socio-economical development. The usual mismatch between formal bureaucracies{\textquoteright} functioning, the usual top-down software development schemes, and the actual trajectories of development initiatives (mostly run by international agencies) provides a promising empirical field. This paper intends to discuss the connection between FOSS and organizational learning in contexts where the usual assumptions about them cannot be taken for granted. It is argued that the relevance of open technologies as public goods is in allowing organizational learning in public administration. Such a focus on the organizational aspects would complement existing studies on the economical relevance of FOSS. {\textcopyright} 2008 by International Federation for Information Processing.},
	isbn = {9780387097671},
	issn = {1868-4238},
	doi = {10.1007/978-0-387-09768-8_31},
	author = {Miscione, G and Aanestad, M}
}
@article {miscione2008thescale,
	title = {The Shifting Legitimation of an Information System: Local, Global and Large Scale},
	journal = {GlobDev 2008},
	year = {2008},
	pages = {7{\textendash}7},
	author = {Miscione, G and Staring, K and {\O}stmo, L and Fossum, K}
}
@booklet {miscione2007buildingsector,
	title = {Building Europe-Africa collaborative Network for IST in Health sector},
	year = {2007},
	month = {May},
	publisher = {Maputo, Mozambique},
	abstract = {Government of Mozambique and European Commission (Information Society Technologies of EU 6th Framework Programme)},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@conference {miscione2007scalabilityorganization,
	title = {Scalability as Institutionalization - Practicing District Health Information System in an Indian State Health Organization},
	year = {2007},
	address = {Sao Paulo, Brazil},
	author = {Miscione, G and Sahay, S}
}
@article {miscione2007telemedicinepractices,
	title = {Telemedicine in the upper Amazon: Interplay with local health care practices},
	journal = {MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems},
	volume = {31},
	number = {2},
	year = {2007},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {403{\textendash}425},
	abstract = {This article is based on the introduction of a telemedicine system in the jungles of northeastern Peru. The system was designed by a European consortium led by a Spanish polytechnic in cooperation with two universities in Lima and the Peruvian Ministry of Health. The purpose of the system was to improve health conditions by extending science-based medicine into a region with well-established traditional healing practices. The central analytical focus of this article is on the interplay between the public health care system, which used the telemedicine system, and local health care practices. The manner in which scientific medicine was delivered through information technology and public health care services is analyzed in terms of the health personnel{\textquoteright}s activity, the local population {\textquoteright}s conceptions of health, and the trajectories followed by patients seeking recovery. The author participated in the design of the second evaluation of the telemedicine system and acted as a participant observer in the regional hospital and peripheral clinics. In addition to interviewing health care staff from the study area, the author also met with traditional healers, and patients in the districts whether or not they were involved in the telemedicine project. New institutional theory provided the analytical framework for the interpretation of the observed behavior of the public health care staff, traditional healers, and potential patients. Empirically, this study describes the informal aspects of the functioning of the telemedicine system, and its partial mismatch with the definitions of health and illness employed by local communities and healers. An argument is made that people{\textquoteright}s construction of their health, which is embedded in their normal patterns of action, should be identified, and then considered in the design, implementation, and evaluation of future telemedicine projects. This article problematizes an approach to telemedicine-based health development that is weakly accountable to local social contexts and their diversity.},
	issn = {0276-7783},
	doi = {10.2307/25148797},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2006theschool,
	title = {The Boundaries of Medical Knowledge. The case of Telemedicine in Upper Amazon (Warwick Business School)},
	year = {2006},
	month = {Mar},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@article {miscione2006open,
	title = {Open philosophies for associative autopoietic digital ecosystems: community networks and digital ecosystems-sociological Aspects: powerpoint},
	year = {2006},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2006openscience,
	title = {Open Philosophies for Associative Autopoietic Digital Ecosystems: Community Networks and Digital Ecosystems - Sociological Aspects (London School of Economics and Political Science)},
	year = {2006},
	month = {Jun},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@mastersthesis {miscione2006telemedicinapractices,
	title = {{\textquotedblleft}Telemedicina in Alta Amazzonia - Una Prospettiva di Sviluppo Sanitario fra Diverse Pratiche di Cura{\textquotedblright} [{\textquotedblleft}Telemedicine in the Upper Amazon {\textendash} A Case Study of Health Development between Diverse Healing Practices{\textquotedblright}]},
	year = {2006},
	month = {Feb},
	type = {phd},
	abstract = {This research is based on the case of implementation of telemedicine services within the public health care system of a North-eastern area of Peru, in the Amazon (Ch. 1). Three years before this study started, a consortium comprising of Spanish and Peruvian universities {\textendash}supported by a non-governmental organization- established radio connections for voice and data communication between the local hospital and health facilities of the area, in order to provide telemedicine services. This initiative was aimed at the improvement of the health care system organization, therefore of the local health conditions. It was not secondary the intention to define a model for ICT-based health development interventions in rural areas of Latin America (Ch. 2). My study, centered on the telemedicine system, is based on the participant observation within the consortium in Spain and Peru, both in the partner universities and in the Amazonian part of the public health care system (Ch. 3, with a special attention for reflexive issues). The focus of the research has been on the organizational relevance of the interplay between designers{\textquoteright} perspectives and expectations, on one side (Ch. 4), and local process of telemedicine system accommodation in the context of implementation, on the other. Particular attention is given to telemedicine system use, and to the mutual interrelation with local constructions of health and illness (Ch. 5). It has been found a divergence between planned and observed use of the system, the former being accountable to the context of origin of the project and to the funding agencies, the latter being indirectly affected by unexpected health-seeking behaviors of the target population ({\textquotedblleft}Telemedicine And Knowledge Between Medical And Development Discourses{\textquotedblright} CMS4). A rationalist conception of telemedicine -and of organizational changes it is expected to produce- sees local healing practices as obstacles to health development, and this hinders organizational learning ("Organizational Learning in Health Care - Situating Information Technologies in the Amazon" under review process for Social Theory \& Health). I noted how people{\textquoteright}s perception and construction of their health (also outside formal health organization and scientific definitions of health and sickness) plays an important role as social regulator, as far as they are embedded in normal patterns of action ({\textquotedblleft}Telemedicine in the Upper Amazon: Interplay with Local Health Care Practices{\textquotedblright} MISQ). This needs to be understood and considered in evaluation, design and implementation of future initiatives of ICT-based health development efforts (Ch 6 and {\textquotedblleft}Policies on Health Development and Information and Communication Technologies - A Bottom-up Perspective on Policy Making about Telemedicine Services in Cross-cultural Settings{\textquotedblright} eHDC). MAIN CONTRIBUTIONS: -	Focus on telemedicine through a micro-level lens of Neoinstitutionalism (in ethnomethodological terms), which is not well-developed in IS studies -	Critique of diffusionism and of reified conceptions of medical knowledge, which cannot be made easily available though IT solutions, mostly across diverse social settings -	Empirical granularity on practices, which highlights interplays that more traditional empirical units (actors, places, issues) may not account for -	Reflexivity awareness in ICT in development contexts TABLE OF CONTENTS Telemedicine in the Upper Amazon - A Perspective on Health Development between Different Healing Practices	1 Abstract	3 Acknowledgements	5 Introduction	13 Chapter I {\textendash} Telemedicine between Knowledge and {\textquotedblleft}Development{\textquotedblright}	17 1. Research Field	18 1.1. Telemedicine and {\textquotedblleft}Development{\textquotedblright}	19 2. Boundaries of the Empirical Field	25 3. Organizations, ICT and Knowledge	28 3.1. Telemedicine and Knowledge Transfer	32 3.2. A Boundary of the Knowledge Society	33 4. Development and Organization	35 4.1. Contemporary Trends	38 5. Research Focal Points	41 5.1. Research Questions	43 Chapter II {\textendash} Introduction to the Telemedicine in the Upper Amazon case 45 1. Red Ibero-Suramericana de Salud Project	45 2. The Amazon area where the Telemedicine System is Implemented	50 3. Health Care System in the Upper Amazon	54 3.1. Public Health Insurance	57 4. Technical Aspects of the Telemedicine System	58 5. Planned Uses of the Telemedicine System	64 Chapter III {\textendash} Methodological Aspects	67 1. Documentary Study and Participant Observation	68 2. My Perspectives on the Case	76 2.1. Self Interview	77 2.2. Access the Empirical Field and Construction of my Role	79 2.3. Telemedicine as Knowledge Instrument: Contiguity of Viewpoints	82 3. Research Trajectory	92 4. Notes about Data Analysis and Presentation	115 Chapter IV {\textendash} Interorganizational Network of the Telemedicine Project	119 1. The Evaluation Conducted by Organizers	119 2. Interorganizational Aspects	130 2.1. Documentary Analysis of Mailing Lists and Chat Sessions	130 2.2. Academic Position of the RISS Project Coordinators	134 2.3. Discursive Alignments	137 3. Final Notes	142 Chapter V {\textendash} Telemedicine and {\textquotedblleft}Development{\textquotedblright}, the Case Of the Upper Amazon	145 1. RISS {\textendash} Peru{\textquoteright}s Perspectives	148 2. Arrival to the Amazon	158 2.1. First Impressions at the Hospital	163 2.2. Following the Prevention Programme	166 3. Re-starting from the Telemedicine System	172 3.1. Knowledge Sharing	185 3.2. Conference about Malaria	188 3.3. Epidemiologic Surveillance	192 3.4. Reports Transmission and Logistical Support	195 3.5. Maintenance and Responsibilities	199 4. Aspects of the Telemedicine Context	206 4.1. Use of Medical Plants	216 4.2. {\textquotedblleft}A Physician is Someone who Studies Medicine through the University{\textquotedblright}	221 4.3. Local Healers	234 5. Trajectories through Medicines	243 Chapter VI {\textendash} Discussion	251 1. Planned and Observed Uses	251 1.1. Problematizing an Approach to Telemedicine	256 2. Multiple Accountabilities	258 3. Expectations from the System	268 Conclusions	275 List of References	279},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2006telemedicineeconomics,
	title = {Telemedicine in Amazon; Other Knowledges to be Accountable to (London School of Economics)},
	year = {2006},
	month = {Mar},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2005irete,
	title = {I LIMITI DELLA STRUTTURAZIONE DELL{\textquoteright}INFORMAZIONE IN RETE},
	year = {2005},
	month = {Jan},
	publisher = {.},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@book {miscione2005suirete,
	title = {Sui limiti della rete},
	year = {2005},
	publisher = {Editrice UNI Service},
	organization = {Editrice UNI Service},
	address = {.},
	isbn = {8888859179},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@book {miscione2005suiboundaries,
	title = {Sui Limiti Della Rete (On the Net Boundaries)},
	year = {2005},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2005telemedicineparis,
	title = {Telemedicine and Development - A Case From a Knowledge Society Boundary (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)},
	year = {2005},
	month = {Jan},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2005translatingparis,
	title = {Translating Telemedicine in Upper Amazon into the Academy (Ecole de Mines, Paris)},
	year = {2005},
	month = {Apr},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2004microsettings,
	title = {Micro Policies on Health Development and Information and Communication Technologies - A Bottom-up Perspective on Policy Making about Telemedicine Services in Cross-cultural Settings},
	year = {2004},
	pages = {21{\textendash}21},
	publisher = {Rome, Italy},
	address = {Rome, Italy},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@booklet {miscione2004telemedicinasocioculturales,
	title = {Telemedicina en Per{\'u}: Un Estudio de los Aspectos Socio-Culturales},
	year = {2004},
	month = {Jan},
	publisher = {Cayetano Heredia University, Lima, Peru},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
@article {miscione2000hack3rzwarfare,
	title = {hAcK3rZ e information warfare},
	journal = {Quaderni di Sociologia},
	number = {23},
	year = {2000},
	month = {Aug},
	pages = {22{\textendash}47},
	publisher = {OpenEdition},
	issn = {0033-4952},
	doi = {10.4000/qds.1359},
	author = {Miscione, G}
}
