The sociology of expectations in science and technology

By M. Borup, N. Brown, Kornelia Konrad, Harro van Lente. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 2006

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Towards a cultural political economy of mitigation deterrence by negative emissions technologies (NETs) (2018, background): “Similarly, as at the cultural register, technological expectations [20,46] here circulate amongst stakeholders as representations and perceptions of possible futures.”
Reducing energy demand through low carbon innovation: A sociotechnical transitions perspective and thirteen research debates (2018, background): “learning processes, attract attention, and legitimate (continuing) protection and nurturing [53,54,62]; • Building of social networks: This process is important to create a constituency behind an innovation, to facilitate interactions between relevant stakeholders, and to provide the necessary resou”
The car industry and the blow-out of the hydrogen hype (2010, background): “This role, and the deliberate use, of expectations and hype has been analyzed in detail by scholars active in the so-called sociology of expectations (Van Lente, 1993; Borup et al., 2006).”
Machine learning, social learning and the governance of self-driving cars (2018, neutral): “One attempt (though flawed [Borup et al., 2006]) to capture and challenge the levels of promise surrounding emerging technologies has been developed by Gartner, a consultancy firm.”
Comparing technological hype cycles: Towards a theory (2013, background): “Such expectations play an important role in the emergence of technology by guiding research activities, attracting resources and creating legitimacy [1-3].”
Locative media and data-driven computing experiments (2016, background): “As Borup et al .”
A critical review of cloud computing: researching desires and realities (2012, background): “This is particularly problematic during the early stages of an innovation’s diffusion, when community know-how is limited (Wang and Ramiller, 2009) and the technology is defined more in terms of its expectations than its implementation (Brown and Michael, 2003; Swanson, 2003; Borup et al ., 2006).”
Local niche experimentation in energy transitions: a theoretical and empirical exploration of proximity advantages and disadvantages (2010, background): “Articulating expectations is an important resource in niche-experimentation (Van Lente, 1993; Brown and Michael, 2003; Borup et al, 2006).”
Ordering theories: Typologies and conceptual frameworks for sociotechnical change (2017, neutral): “Although there are parallel accounts, such as the closely related literature on promissory discourses in the biosciences and the more distant literature on the performativity of economics, the first limitation to the approach is that it has been applied so far only to a particular type of discourse,”