Technological adoption and use after mass market displacement: The case of the LP record

As the record spins: materialising connections

“…Thus personal nostalgia is a common reason for preferring vinyl especially among older people who have personal lived experiences of that technology in its heyday. However, the passion for vinyl cannot just arise from personal nostalgia (Nokelainen and Dedehayir, 2015), since some consumers who were born after vinyl was superseded also prefer vinyl (Hassan, 2016).…”

“…Styvén (2010) explains that vinyl rebounded in 2005, right around the time that commercial digital platforms such as Apple's iTunes TM began to penetrate the mass market. Not only is vinyl the only non-digital music format that has increased in sales since then (Nokelainen and Dedehayir, 2015), it was the fastest growing music format from 2010 to 2015 (Bartmanski and Woodward, 2015), capping off ten consecutive years of increasing sales (Nielsen, 2016 (Plasketes, 1992) or (ii) those within specialist niches where the technology still retains advantages (Hietanen and Rokka, 2015). However, recent research and market data suggest a different picture, with industry reports differing on who is driving the resurgence in vinyl sales.…”

“…Since digital technology cannot be avoided, they seek to materialise authenticity in a constrained area of their lives -in this case, vinyl music. Nokelainen and Dedehayir (2015) resurgence. We found that it is the material nature of legacy technology makes some users passionately prefer it over its digital alternatives.…”

‘Vinyl never say die’: The re-incarnation, adoption and diffusion of retro-technologies

“…While the marketing and innovation literatures offer some insightful pointers and subsidiary awareness of the reincarnation of old technologies [12,[26][27][28], theoretical frameworks that show how the interaction among actors and artefacts, and the changes happening to all of them as a result of these interactions is sparse. In turn, we also lack conceptual innovations that analyse how different translation processes through which technologies, artefacts' and human actors interact to give form to the re-incarnation of old technologies.…”

“…In this regard, we follow in the footsteps of other scholars such as [7,10,12], to argue that the resurgence and increasing adoption of nearobsolete technologies has some epistemological relevance to the management of technology in this digital age. This discursive positioning of retro-technologies is not simply of innovation.…”