Understanding technological innovation: a socio-technical approach / Patrice Flichy
Material type: TextPublication details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2007Description: ix, 195p, 24cmISBN:- 9781847203915
- 303.483 FLI
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303.483 FAG Innovation studies : | 303.483 FER Technological man : | 303.483 FEY Science in a free society | 303.483 FLI Understanding technological innovation: | 303.483 FOE World without mind : | 303.483 FOS Traditional cultures : | 303.483 FOS Traditional societies and technological change / |
How do the social sciences address the question of innovation and the relationship between technology and use? This is the core point of this book which examines critically diverse works, in sociology, history, economics and anthropology, in order to formulate a new approach. This reflection is essentially of a general nature, though the cases used to illustrate the analysis are drawn primarily from the field of ICT. Patrice Flichy studies how the socio-technological actions of the different actors, particularly designers and users, are organized within the same frames of reference. He also introduces a new element into the model by demonstrating how time is involved in technological choices. Understanding Technological Innovation will be essential reading for advanced teaching and research training in the fields of science and technology studies, and media and communication studies.
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