Revue Relations - Contrôle social 2.0. Many-to-Many: INNUMERABLE TRANSMISSIONS: WI-FI FROM SPECTACLE TO MOVEMENT - Information, Communication & Society. This paper analyses Wi-Fi, a mundane wireless networking technology, in terms of a cultural flow of meanings concerning movement of people and data. The principal analytical problem addressed in the paper is how to make sense of the profusion of images, practices, events, objects and social groupings associated with Wi-Fi. Rather than treating the abundance as driven by the IT industry's desire to find the Next Big Thing, or as hype that obscures actual social realities, the paper suggests that different ideas, ambivalences, frustrations and problems with Wi-Fi form part of an ongoing contestation of the meaning and value of information infrastructures.
Using a model of culture drawn from Ulf Hannerz, the paper describes how meanings flow in three axes: ideas or modes of thought, forms of externalization and social distributions. Wi-Fi offers a significant opportunity to analyse how different movements of people and data are collectively negotiated and figured. Keywords Related articles. Local Experts in the Domestication of Information and Communication Technologies - Information, Communication & Society. Research into the adoption and use of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) pays increasing attention to social context; however, the social fabric of contexts of use is often poorly theorized. This paper presents an investigation into the formation and operation of informal local networks of collaboration and knowledge exchange. It highlights the role of local experts in sustaining these informal networks and helping individuals and groups adopt and cope with new ICTs.
The paper draws on a range of analytic traditions, including domestication and consumer research, to assess how local experts transfer knowledge, ideas of use and even new technologies across social networks and across the boundaries between home, work and education and other domains of life. The methodology deployed attempts to overcome the limitations of many studies of the adoption and diffusion of innovations in sample selection, especially the inclusion of non-adopters. Keywords Related articles. Global Nomads' Network and Mobile Sociality: Exploring New Media Uses on the Move - Information, Communication & Society. This paper explores the convergence of communication and travel and the emergence of a mobile and network sociality, through investigating new communication practices based on the internet and mobile phone enacted by backpackers while on the move.
These global nomads produce and maintain mobile spaces of sociality, founded on a complex intersection of face-to-face interaction and mediated communication, co-presence and virtual proximity, corporeal travel and virtual mobilities. Personal communities become a mobile phenomenon, relocalized in a plurality of online and offline social spaces. It is thus argued that network relationships are reshaped and mobilized through reconfigurations of co-presence, proximity and distance in relation to the use of new media. Exploring new media uses on the move can thus provide a useful insight into the emerging social model of the network and mobile society. Keywords Related articles View all related articles.
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It will not get into deeper aspects ; rather it will try to understand the role of sociological analysis and help them in their fieldwork. First we will insist on the definitions of technology. Introduction The course is intended as a general introduction for sociologists. I recommend three books as basic textbooks : Bruno Latour’s “Science in Action” is an excellent method book in order to do applied sociological research on scientific and technological projects. As a general introduction to innovation analysis, with an ample view on the socio-economic and management issues, I would recommend Tidd, Bessant and Pavitt’s “Managing innovation”. Doing empirical research on technology should always be done with an eye on other disciplines : economics, history and sociology of work.
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