Dr. Helena Karasti
Vita
Helena Karasti is an interdisciplinary scholar with longitudinal research interests in ethnographic practice studies, participatory design, computer supported collaborative work and information infrastructure studies. Her main empirical domains of investigation include healthcare and environmental research. She has published in the topic areas of scientific data/information management, research infrastructure formation, infrastructuring, integrations of ethnography and participatory/collaborative design, participation, and researcher reflexivity. She has recently co-edited three special issues: ‘Knowledge Infrastructures’ for Science & Technology Studies (2016), ‘Infrastructuring and Collaborative Design’ for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (2017, 2018), and ‘Unfolding Participation over Time in the Design of IT (2018) for CoDesign (2018).
Helena Karasti received her doctoral degree in Information Systems from University of Oulu in 2001, docent degrees in Information Systems with specialization in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) at University of Turku in 2008, and with specialization in Information Systems’ Infrastructuring at University of Oulu in 2015. Karasti has worked as professor at University of Oulu and Turku (Finland) and Luleå University of Technology (Sweden). She has been guest professor in the Department of People and Technology at Roskilde University (Denmark), visiting scholar in the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS) in Graz (Austria), and post doc in the Department of Communication at University of California, San Diego (USA).
Publications
2018
(2018) Studying Infrastructuring Ethnographically, Computer Supported Cooperative Work: CSCW: An International Journal 27(2), p. 233-265, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), doi:10.1007/s10606-017-9296-7
(2018) An Afterword to ‘Infrastructuring and Collaborative Design', Computer Supported Cooperative Work: CSCW: An International Journal 27(2), p. 267-289, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), doi:10.1007/s10606-017-9305-x
(2018) Unfolding participation over time: temporal lenses in participatory design, CoDesign 14(1), p. 4-16, Taylor & Francis, url, doi:10.1080/15710882.2018.1426773
(2018) Examining situated design practices: Nurses' transformations towards genuine participation, Design Studies, p. 1-23, doi:10.1016/j.destud.2017.12.002
(2018) Unfolding participation over time in the design of IT, CoDesign 14(1), p. 1-3, Taylor & Francis, url, doi:10.1080/15710882.2018.1426981
2017
(2017) A Preface to ‘Infrastructuring and Collaborative Design', Computer Supported Cooperative Work: CSCW: An International Journal 26(1-2), p. 1-6, doi:10.1007/s10606-017-9271-3
2016
(2016) Reflexive engagement: Orientation for ‘Doing Reflexivity' and Addressing ‘Participation in Plural', Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference on Full papers - PDC '16, p. 21-30, url, doi:10.1145/2940299.2940302
(2016) Reflexive Engagement: Enacting Reflexivity in Design and for 'Participation in Plural', Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Full Papers - Volume 1, p. 21-30, url, doi:10.1145/2940299.2940302
(2016) Nurses' journey toward genuine participation, Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference on Short Papers, Interactive Exhibitions, Workshops - PDC '16, p. 57-60, url, doi:10.1145/2948076.2948080
(2016) Knowledge Infrastructures : Part IV, Science and Technology Studies 29(4), p. 2-9
(2016) Knowledge Infrastructures : Part I, Science and Technology Studies 29(1), p. 2-12
(2016) Knowledge Infrastructures : Part II, Science and Technology Studies 29(2), p. 2-6
(2016) Knowledge Infrastructures: Part III, Science and Technology Studies 29(3), p. 2-9
2014
(2014) Constructing the field: Methodological reflections for infrastructuring in Participatory Design, International Reports on Socio-Informatics (IRSI), 11(2), p. 29-38
(2014) Infrastructuring in Participatory Design, Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2014, p. 141-150, doi:10.1145/2661435.2661450
(2014) Infrastructuring, collaboration and evolving socio-material practices of changing our world, Participatory Design Conference, PDC '14, Windhoek, Namibia, October 6-10, 2014, Volume 1 - Short Papers, Industry Cases, Workshop Descriptions, Doctoral Consortium papers, and Keynote abstracts, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Vincenzo D'Andrea, Ole Sejer Iversen (ed.), p. 221-222, ACM, url, doi:10.1145/2662155.2662211
2013
(2013) Reflections on 25 Years of Ethnography in CSCW, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 22(4-6), p. 373-423, url, doi:10.1007/s10606-012-9183-1
(2013) Ethnography: Positioning Ethnography within Participatory Design, Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design, Jesper Simonsen, Toni Robertson (ed.), p. 86-116, New York, NY, USA: Routledge
2011
(2011) Tieteen infrastruktuurit—näkymättömiä tukirakenteita, kansallisia kilpailuvaltteja vai uuden tutkimusvision mahdollistajia?, Tieteessä tapahtuu(3), p. 31-36
2010
(2010) Participant interventionist. Researcher role integrating ethnography and participatory design, The 3rd Qualitative Research Conference: Developing Research Practices. June 1-3, 2010, p. 1-12, pdf
(2010) ”Like Stewardship or Curatorship, or Shepherding”: Ethics of Care in the Technoscientific Work Practice of LTER Information Managers, Travelling Thoughtfulness – Feminist technoscience stories, P Elovaara, J Sefyrin, M-B. Öhman, C Björkman (ed.), p. 135-150, Department of Informatics, UmeåUniversity, Sweden
(2010) Tutkimusinfrastruktuuripolitiikan haasteet Suomessa: Tieteen infrastruktuurit-asiantuntijapaneelin antia, Informaatiotutkimus 29(4), url
2009
(2009) Mediation between design and use: Revisiting five empirical studies, Human IT - Journal for Information Technology Studies as a Human Science 10(2), p. 81-126
2008
(2008) Digital Data Practices and the Long Term Ecological Research Program Growing Global, International Journal of Digital Curation 3(2), p. 42-58, UKOLN, url
(2008) Community Design: growing one's own information infrastructure, Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008, p. 217-220
2006
(2006) Enriching the Notion of Data Curation in E-Science: Data Managing and Information Infrastructuring in the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 15(4), p. 321-358, url, doi:10.1007/s10606-006-9023-2
2004
(2004) Artful infrastructuring in two cases of community PD, Proceedings of the eighth conference on Participatory design Artful integration: interweaving media, materials and practices - PDC 04 1, p. 20-30, url, doi:10.1145/1011870.1011874
2001
(2001) Bridging Work Practice and System Design: Integrating Systemic Analysis, Appreciative Intervention and Practitioner Participation, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 10(2), p. 211-246