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SIGCIS Workshop 2015: InfrastructuresSunday, October 11, 2015, Albuquerque, New MexicoDeadline for submissions: June 30, 2015[caption id="attachment_1824" align="alignleft" width="300"] Ben Stanfield — http://www.flickr.com/people/acaben/CC BY-SA 2.0[/caption] For the SIGCIS 2015 Workshop, we invite papers that engage historical dimensions of the prosaic work of building networks, cultivating workforces, and maintaining computing and information infrastructures. Related themes necessarily include maintenance, labor, and ordinary experiences with information and computing technologies. Proposals for individual papers or complete sessions might include the following topics:the maintenance of legacy hardware and softwarethe training and treatment of labor and workforcesthe lived realities of computers and ITdigital archives and their sustainabilitycyberinfrastructures for bureaucratic and scientific collaborationmateriality of computing, media, and information technologiesspecific infrastructural technologies such as cables, fiber-optics, switching, and wirelesspolitical and economic aspects of infrastructure maintenance and developmenttensions between local or national legal regimes and global information infrastructuresEn savoir plus 