Elena Parmiggiani

About

I am Associate Professor in CSCW and Digital Collaboration and Deputy Head of Department for Sustainability at the Department of Computer Science, NTNU.

I belong to the Applied Information Technologies (AIT) group. I have coordinated the Digital Enterprise Research Priority Area at the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (2019-2022).

I hold a PhD in Computer Science from NTNU (2015). My PhD thesis was titled: "Integration by Infrastructuring: The Case of Subsea Environmental Monitoring in Oil and Gas Offshore Operations".

My primary research interest is the study of the empirical challenges of implementing and maintaining sustainable digital platforms from a sociotechnical perspective, in particular:

user-centered perspectives in responsible design and use of AI
data work and data curation in data science
digitalization of work processes (especially in the energy sector)
Internet of Things for long-term ecological research

Methodologically, I adopt an ethnographically inspired approach based on an interpretive perspective.

Theoretically, I am particularly concerned with issues of system integration and data management. I draw primarily on IS and CSCW theories, but my work is also influenced by Science and Technology Studies (STS). I have recently published in MIS Quarterly, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, CSCW Jorunal, Science and Technology Studies Journal, the International Conference on IS, European Conference on IS, and the Scandinavian Journal of IS.

I am in the management team of the project AI4Users, in cooperation with University of Agder (project leader) and University of Oslo, funded by the IKTPLUSS program of the Norwegian Research Council (2020-2025).

I am PI for the Human Factors in AI area in the Nordic Center for Sustainable and Trustworthy AI Research (NordSTAR) funded by OsloMet.

I am affiliated with the Sirius center for research-based innovation (2016-2024).

Previously, I was in the management group of the research network AlgoCult ("Algorithmic Cultures and the Digitalization of the Public Sector"), in cooperation with Kristiania University College and the University of Oslo, funded by the SAMKUL program of the Norwegian Research Concil (2018-2019).

I am Associate Editor in the CSCW Journal and Norwegian Editor in the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS).

Publications

2022

Hepsø, Vidar; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2022) From Integrated to Remote Operations: Digital Transformation in the Energy Industry as Infrastructuring. Digital Transformation in Norwegian Enterprises.
Academic chapter/article
Hepsø, Vidar; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2022) Timescaping the Arctic with Real-Time Data. Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North.
Academic chapter/article
Mikalef, Patrick; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2022) A Framework for Digital Transformation for Research and Practice: Putting Things into Perspective. Digital Transformation in Norwegian Enterprises.
Academic chapter/article
Mikalef, Patrick; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2022) An Introduction to Digital Transformation. Digital Transformation in Norwegian Enterprises.
Academic chapter/article
Mikalef, Patrick; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2022) Concluding Remarks and Final Thoughts on Digital Transformation. Digital Transformation in Norwegian Enterprises.
Academic chapter/article
Mikalef, Patrick; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2022) Digital Transformation in Norwegian Enterprises. Springer. 2022. ISBN 978-3-031-05275-0.
Scientific anthology
Parmiggiani, Elena; Mikalef, Patrick. (2022) The Case of Norway and Digital Transformation over the Years. Digital Transformation in Norwegian Enterprises.
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Mikalef, Patrick. (2022) The Way Forward: A Practical Guideline for Successful Digital Transformation. Digital Transformation in Norwegian Enterprises.
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Østerlie, Thomas; Almklov, Petter Grytten. (2022) In the Backrooms of Data Science. Journal of the AIS. volum 23 (1).
Academic article

2021

Farshchian, Babak A.; Grisot, Miria; Hochwarter, Stefan; Islind, Anna Sigridur; Mikalsen, Marius; Parmiggiani, Elena; Vassilakopoulou, Polyxeni. (2021) Platform-Supported Cooperative Work. Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies.
Academic article
Farshchian, Babak A.; Parmiggiani, Elena; Dahl-Jørgensen, Tangni Cunningham; Quayyum, Farzana. (2021) How to Teach Empirical Research Methods in Information Systems? Report from a SCIS/IRIS 2019 Workshop. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS). volum 33 (1).
Academic article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Kempton, Alexander Moltubakk; Mikalef, Patrick. (2021) Foreword: Living in a digital world?. Proceedings of the12th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS2021).
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Kempton, Alexander Moltubakk; Mikalef, Patrick. (2021) Proceedings of the12th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS2021). Association for Information Systems (AIS). 2021. ISBN 978-82-303-5054-6.
Scientific anthology
Stefania, Sardo; Parmiggiani, Elena; Hoholm, Thomas. (2021) Not in transition: Inter-infrastructural governance and the politics of repair in the Norwegian oil and gas offshore industry. Energy Research & Social Science. volum 75.
Academic article

2020

Dahl-Jørgensen, Tangni Cunningham; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2020) Platformization of the Public Sector: Assessing the Space of Possibilities for Participation. PDC '20: Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation Otherwise.
Academic chapter/article
Dahl-Jørgensen, Tangni Cunningham; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2020) Platformization of the public sector: Assessing the space of possibility for participation. PDC '20: Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation Otherwise.
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena. (2020) The role of theory in empirical research methods in Information Systems: An agile lecture sequence approach. Læring om læring. volum 5 (1).
Academic article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Grisot, Miria. (2020) Data Curation as Governance Practice. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS). volum 32 (1).
Academic article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Teracino, Elizabeth; Huysman, Marleen; Jones, Matthew; Mueller, Benjamin; Mikalsen, Marius. (2020) OASIS 2019 Panel Report: A Glimpse at the “Post-Digital”. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. volum 47.
Academic article
Pekkola, Samuli; Lise, Tordrup; Parmiggiani, Elena; Borglund, Erik. (2020) IRIS Conference Health Check. Traditions, tensions, and reformations. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS). volum 32 (2).
Academic article

2019

Botero, Andrea; Karasti, Helena; Saad-Sulonen, Joanna; Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie; Karen, Baker; Parmiggiani, Elena; Marttila, Sanna. (2019) Drawing Together: Infrastructuring and Politics for Participatory Design - a visual collection of cases, issues, questions, and relevant literature. 2019. ISBN 978-952-62-2204-2.
Report
Di Loreto, Ines; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2019) Inquire the Way We Inquire. ID&A Interaction design & architecture(s).
Academic article
Monteiro, Eric; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2019) Synthetic Knowing: The Politics of the Internet of Things. MIS Quarterly. volum 43 (1).
Academic article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Grisot, Miria. (2019) Data Infrastructures in the Public Sector: A Critical Research Agenda Rooted in Scandinavian IS Research. Proceedings of the 10th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS2019).
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Monteiro, Eric. (2019) Digitized Coral Reefs. Digitalsts: A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies.
Academic chapter/article

2018

Baker, Karen S.; Botero, Andrea; Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie; Karasti, Helena; Marttila, Sanna; Parmiggiani, Elena; Saad-Sulonen, Joanna. (2018) What does infrastructuring look like in STS? When? Workshop Report. EASST Review. volum 37 (4).
Academic article
Grisot, Miria; Parmiggiani, Elena; Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie. (2018) Infrastructuring Internet of Things for Public Governance. European Conference on Information Systems: Beyond Digitization - Facets of Socio-Technical Change ECIS 2018 Proceedings.
Academic chapter/article
Karasti, Helena; Botero, Andrea; Baker, Karen S.; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2018) Little Data, Big Data, No Data? Data Management in the Era of Research Infrastructures. 2018. ISBN 978-952-62-2006-2.
Report
Monteiro, Eric; Østerlie, Thomas; Parmiggiani, Elena; Mikalsen, Marius. (2018) Quantifying quality: Towards a Post-Humanist Perspective on Sensemaking. Living with Monsters? Social Implications of Algorithmic Phenomena, Hybrid Agency, and the Performativity of Technology. IS&O 2018. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 543. Springer, Cham.
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Karasti, Helena. (2018) Surfacing the arctic: politics of participation in infrastructuring. Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Situated Actions, Workshops and Tutorial - Volume 2.
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Monteiro, Eric. (2018) Shifting Baselines? Recommendations for Green IS. Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).
Academic chapter/article

2017

Parmiggiani, Elena. (2017) This is not a fish: on the scale and politics of infrastructure design studies. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). volum 26 (1-2).
Academic article

2016

Parmiggiani, Elena; Monteiro, Eric. (2016) A measure of ‘environmental happiness’: Infrastructuring environmental risk in oil and gas offshore operations. Science & Technology Studies. volum 29 (1).
Academic article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Monteiro, Eric; Østerlie, Thomas. (2016) Synthetic situations in the internet of things. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. volum 489.
Academic article

2015

Parmiggiani, Elena. (2015) Integration by Infrastructuring: The Case of Subsea Environmental Monitoring in Oil and Gas Offshore Operations. 2015. ISBN 978-82-326-1124-9. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (234).
PhD thesis
Parmiggiani, Elena; Monteiro, Eric. (2015) The nested materiality of environmental monitoring. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS). volum 27 (1).
Academic article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Monteiro, Eric; Hepsø, Vidar. (2015) The Digital Coral: Infrastructuring Environmental Monitoring. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). volum 24 (5).
Academic article

2014

Mikalsen, Marius; Parmiggiani, Elena; Hepsø, Vidar. (2014) Sociomaterial capabilities in integrated oil and gas operations - Implications for design. Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2014, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 9-11, 2014.
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena. (2014) Of Corals and Web Portals: Towards a Digital Representation of Risk for the Cold-Water Corals in the Oil and Gas Sector. COOP 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Nice, France 27-30 May, 2014.
Academic chapter/article

2013

Parmiggiani, Elena; Hepsø, Vidar. (2013) Pragmatic Information Management For Environmental Monitoring In Oil And Gas. European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2013) Proceedings.
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Mikalsen, Marius. (2013) The Facets of Sociomateriality: A Systematic Mapping of Emerging Concepts and Definitions. Nordic Contributions in IS Research : 4th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2013, Oslo, Norway, August 11-14, 2013. Proceedings.
Academic chapter/article

Scientific articles

Parmiggiani, Elena; Østerlie, Thomas; Almklov, Petter Grytten. (2022) In the Backrooms of Data Science. Journal of the AIS. volum 23 (1).
Academic article
Farshchian, Babak A.; Grisot, Miria; Hochwarter, Stefan; Islind, Anna Sigridur; Mikalsen, Marius; Parmiggiani, Elena; Vassilakopoulou, Polyxeni. (2021) Platform-Supported Cooperative Work. Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies.
Academic article
Farshchian, Babak A.; Parmiggiani, Elena; Dahl-Jørgensen, Tangni Cunningham; Quayyum, Farzana. (2021) How to Teach Empirical Research Methods in Information Systems? Report from a SCIS/IRIS 2019 Workshop. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS). volum 33 (1).
Academic article
Stefania, Sardo; Parmiggiani, Elena; Hoholm, Thomas. (2021) Not in transition: Inter-infrastructural governance and the politics of repair in the Norwegian oil and gas offshore industry. Energy Research & Social Science. volum 75.
Academic article
Parmiggiani, Elena. (2020) The role of theory in empirical research methods in Information Systems: An agile lecture sequence approach. Læring om læring. volum 5 (1).
Academic article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Grisot, Miria. (2020) Data Curation as Governance Practice. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS). volum 32 (1).
Academic article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Teracino, Elizabeth; Huysman, Marleen; Jones, Matthew; Mueller, Benjamin; Mikalsen, Marius. (2020) OASIS 2019 Panel Report: A Glimpse at the “Post-Digital”. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. volum 47.
Academic article
Pekkola, Samuli; Lise, Tordrup; Parmiggiani, Elena; Borglund, Erik. (2020) IRIS Conference Health Check. Traditions, tensions, and reformations. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS). volum 32 (2).
Academic article
Di Loreto, Ines; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2019) Inquire the Way We Inquire. ID&A Interaction design & architecture(s).
Academic article
Monteiro, Eric; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2019) Synthetic Knowing: The Politics of the Internet of Things. MIS Quarterly. volum 43 (1).
Academic article
Baker, Karen S.; Botero, Andrea; Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie; Karasti, Helena; Marttila, Sanna; Parmiggiani, Elena; Saad-Sulonen, Joanna. (2018) What does infrastructuring look like in STS? When? Workshop Report. EASST Review. volum 37 (4).
Academic article
Parmiggiani, Elena. (2017) This is not a fish: on the scale and politics of infrastructure design studies. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). volum 26 (1-2).
Academic article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Monteiro, Eric. (2016) A measure of ‘environmental happiness’: Infrastructuring environmental risk in oil and gas offshore operations. Science & Technology Studies. volum 29 (1).
Academic article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Monteiro, Eric; Østerlie, Thomas. (2016) Synthetic situations in the internet of things. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. volum 489.
Academic article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Monteiro, Eric. (2015) The nested materiality of environmental monitoring. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS). volum 27 (1).
Academic article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Monteiro, Eric; Hepsø, Vidar. (2015) The Digital Coral: Infrastructuring Environmental Monitoring. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). volum 24 (5).
Academic article

Books

Mikalef, Patrick; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2022) Digital Transformation in Norwegian Enterprises. Springer. 2022. ISBN 978-3-031-05275-0.
Scientific anthology
Parmiggiani, Elena; Kempton, Alexander Moltubakk; Mikalef, Patrick. (2021) Proceedings of the12th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS2021). Association for Information Systems (AIS). 2021. ISBN 978-82-303-5054-6.
Scientific anthology

Part of book/report

Hepsø, Vidar; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2022) From Integrated to Remote Operations: Digital Transformation in the Energy Industry as Infrastructuring. Digital Transformation in Norwegian Enterprises.
Academic chapter/article
Hepsø, Vidar; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2022) Timescaping the Arctic with Real-Time Data. Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North.
Academic chapter/article
Mikalef, Patrick; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2022) A Framework for Digital Transformation for Research and Practice: Putting Things into Perspective. Digital Transformation in Norwegian Enterprises.
Academic chapter/article
Mikalef, Patrick; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2022) An Introduction to Digital Transformation. Digital Transformation in Norwegian Enterprises.
Academic chapter/article
Mikalef, Patrick; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2022) Concluding Remarks and Final Thoughts on Digital Transformation. Digital Transformation in Norwegian Enterprises.
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Mikalef, Patrick. (2022) The Case of Norway and Digital Transformation over the Years. Digital Transformation in Norwegian Enterprises.
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Mikalef, Patrick. (2022) The Way Forward: A Practical Guideline for Successful Digital Transformation. Digital Transformation in Norwegian Enterprises.
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Kempton, Alexander Moltubakk; Mikalef, Patrick. (2021) Foreword: Living in a digital world?. Proceedings of the12th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS2021).
Academic chapter/article
Dahl-Jørgensen, Tangni Cunningham; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2020) Platformization of the Public Sector: Assessing the Space of Possibilities for Participation. PDC '20: Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation Otherwise.
Academic chapter/article
Dahl-Jørgensen, Tangni Cunningham; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2020) Platformization of the public sector: Assessing the space of possibility for participation. PDC '20: Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation Otherwise.
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Grisot, Miria. (2019) Data Infrastructures in the Public Sector: A Critical Research Agenda Rooted in Scandinavian IS Research. Proceedings of the 10th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS2019).
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Monteiro, Eric. (2019) Digitized Coral Reefs. Digitalsts: A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies.
Academic chapter/article
Grisot, Miria; Parmiggiani, Elena; Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie. (2018) Infrastructuring Internet of Things for Public Governance. European Conference on Information Systems: Beyond Digitization - Facets of Socio-Technical Change ECIS 2018 Proceedings.
Academic chapter/article
Monteiro, Eric; Østerlie, Thomas; Parmiggiani, Elena; Mikalsen, Marius. (2018) Quantifying quality: Towards a Post-Humanist Perspective on Sensemaking. Living with Monsters? Social Implications of Algorithmic Phenomena, Hybrid Agency, and the Performativity of Technology. IS&O 2018. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 543. Springer, Cham.
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Karasti, Helena. (2018) Surfacing the arctic: politics of participation in infrastructuring. Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Situated Actions, Workshops and Tutorial - Volume 2.
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Monteiro, Eric. (2018) Shifting Baselines? Recommendations for Green IS. Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).
Academic chapter/article
Mikalsen, Marius; Parmiggiani, Elena; Hepsø, Vidar. (2014) Sociomaterial capabilities in integrated oil and gas operations - Implications for design. Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2014, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 9-11, 2014.
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena. (2014) Of Corals and Web Portals: Towards a Digital Representation of Risk for the Cold-Water Corals in the Oil and Gas Sector. COOP 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Nice, France 27-30 May, 2014.
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Hepsø, Vidar. (2013) Pragmatic Information Management For Environmental Monitoring In Oil And Gas. European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2013) Proceedings.
Academic chapter/article
Parmiggiani, Elena; Mikalsen, Marius. (2013) The Facets of Sociomateriality: A Systematic Mapping of Emerging Concepts and Definitions. Nordic Contributions in IS Research : 4th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2013, Oslo, Norway, August 11-14, 2013. Proceedings.
Academic chapter/article

Report

Botero, Andrea; Karasti, Helena; Saad-Sulonen, Joanna; Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie; Karen, Baker; Parmiggiani, Elena; Marttila, Sanna. (2019) Drawing Together: Infrastructuring and Politics for Participatory Design - a visual collection of cases, issues, questions, and relevant literature. 2019. ISBN 978-952-62-2204-2.
Report
Karasti, Helena; Botero, Andrea; Baker, Karen S.; Parmiggiani, Elena. (2018) Little Data, Big Data, No Data? Data Management in the Era of Research Infrastructures. 2018. ISBN 978-952-62-2006-2.
Report
Parmiggiani, Elena. (2015) Integration by Infrastructuring: The Case of Subsea Environmental Monitoring in Oil and Gas Offshore Operations. 2015. ISBN 978-82-326-1124-9. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (234).
PhD thesis

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