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Technology is society made durable
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In this article, it is argued that power and domination are simply different values of variables that should be studied in their whole range, instead of using different tools to analyse power and weakness.Abstract:
Is it possible to devise a set of concepts that could replace the technology/society divide? This set of new concepts - association and substitution - might help to rephrase some of the traditional questions of social order and especially that of the durability of domination of power. However, instead of using different tools to analyse power and weakness, it is argued that power and domination are simply different values of variables that should be studied in their whole range. By reconstructing networks it is argued that a full description of power and domination may be obtained.read more
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From sectoral systems of innovation to socio-technical systems: Insights about dynamics and change from sociology and institutional theory
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The nature of theory in information systems
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Notes on the theory of the actor-network: ordering, strategy and heterogeneity.
TL;DR: The actor-network theory as discussed by the authors is a body of theoretical and empirical writing which treats social relations, including power and organization, as network effects and argues that society and organization would not exist if they were simply social.
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Bricolage versus breakthrough: distributed and embedded agency in technology entrepreneurship
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a perspective on technology entrepreneurship as involving agency that is distributed across different kinds of actors, and explicate this perspective through a comparative study of processes underlying the emergence of wind turbines in Denmark and in United States.
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The Tyranny of Transparency
TL;DR: In this paper, an academic and a social anthropologist have discussed making the invisible visible, taking its title from a paper by Tsoukas (The Tyranny of Light), the result is a short excursu...
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TL;DR: A handsome annotated edition of Albert Einstein's celebrated book on relativity was published in 2017 as discussed by the authors, along with commentaries by Hanoch Gutfreund and Jurgen Renn that examine the evolution of Einstein's thinking and cast his ideas in a modern context.
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The Electrification of America: the System Builders
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Technology and the Market: George Eastman and the Origins of Mass Amateur Photography
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