Steven Jackson

Assistant Professor
School of Information

About Steven Jackson

Prof. Jackson's work explores the growing role of IT forms and practices in shaping contemporary systems of knowledge and governance. Specific projects have included the analysis of computer models as emerging technologies of governance within contexts of entrenched environmental conflict (most notably water modeling in the American Southwest, the topic of a current book manuscript); social scientific and historical analysis of the development of information infrastructure for the sciences (aka "cyberinfrastructure" or "e-science"); the shifting worlds of policy and politics around IT standardization and interoperability; and efforts to build robust and equitable information infrastructures capable of supporting both community and international development (e.g., as PI on the current World Bank-supported Extending African Knowledge Infrastructures project). Uniting these and other research areas is a concern with and commitment to the dynamics, tensions, and possibilities of open infrastructure. more....
  • BA in English and creative writing, Concordia University, Canada
  • MA in political economy, Carleton University, Canada
  • Ph.D. in communication and science studies, University of California-San Diego