A social shaping perspective on the development of the world wide web

Lenert, Edward

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“…In order to understand this point of view, the perspective of the 'social shaping of technology' theory is particularly useful (e.g. Lenert 2004;Marvin 1989;Bijker 1995;Hine 2000). This approach states that a 'technological change takes place within society, rather than outside of it ' (Lenet 2004: 240), and that the uses and interactions between people influence the form that a technology takes.…”

Section: Online Communication As a Product Of Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media Activism. Water as a Common Good

Cernison¹

2019

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<div>What happens when hundreds of social movement organizations give life to a diffused online campaign? Focusing on the referendums against water privatization in Italy, this book explores how the activists colonized social media thanks to a very wide set of communication practices that convinced 27 million citizens to vote.</div><div><br></div><div>This book focuses on the referendums against water privatisation in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between social movements and internet-related activism during complex campaigns, this book examines how a technological evolution-the increased relevance of social media platforms-affected in very different ways organisations with divergent characteristics, promoting at the same time decentralised communication practices, and new ways of coordinating dispersed communities of people.</div><div>Matteo Cernison combines and adapts a wide set of methods, from social network analysis to digital ethnography, in order to explore in detail how digital activism and face-to-face initiatives interact and overlap. He argues that the geographical scale of actions, the role played by external media professionals, and the activists' perceptions of digital technologies are key elements that contribute in a significant way to shape the very different communication practices often described as online activism.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

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Section: Online Communication As a Product Of Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media Activism. Water as a Common Good

Cernison¹

2019

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“…investment in particular lines of research and development) impact on the nature of technological problems (Mackay and Gillespie, 1992). Second, social constructionists argue technologies emerge out of processes of choice and negotiations between relevant social groups (stakeholders), interpretative flexibility and semiotic power (authority to define a technology), and stabilization (function and use) (see Bijker, 1995;Lenert, 2004). Each approach, however, is limited by its inability to resolve the relationship between structure and agency.…”

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Commodifying digital television in China: a socio-linguistic analysis of media discourse, technology deployment and control

Weber

2010

New Media & Society

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This study examines public discourse surrounding the development and deployment of digital television in China from 1999 to 2004. It analyzes print media constructions of this new media technology against the backdrop of controlled commodification and formation of trans-media groups that define media reform, development and management. The study reveals how these structural changes play a key role in restraining the development of a flexible business environment in which print media can support critical technological development. Inhibiting the media's ability to promote this technological development is a lack of market-oriented experience and knowledge and organizational integration under the current trans-media structure. Accordingly, considerable doubt is cast over the government's broad strategy of media reform, development and management to successfully support the deployment of digital television as the pre-eminent technology in China's drive towards modernization.

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“…The personal computer is used to access and send email and to obtain information from various websites" [16]. Others were foreseeing about emigration from television to the internet and one pioneering service, iCraveTV, had already streamed Canadian television to their website in 1999, providing the first television service over the internet [12].…”

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Television on the internet

Barkhuus

2009

CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Television is increasingly viewed through computers in the form of downloaded or steamed content, yet computer based television consumption has received little attention in HCI. In this paper we describe a study of the uses and practices of tech-savvy college students, studying their television consumption through the internet. We find that users personalize their viewing but that TV is still a richly social experiencenot as communal watching, but instead through communication around television programs. We explore new possibilities for technology-based interaction around television.

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A social shaping perspective on the development of the world wide web

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Social Media Activism. Water as a Common Good

Social Media Activism. Water as a Common Good

Commodifying digital television in China: a socio-linguistic analysis of media discourse, technology deployment and control

Television on the internet

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