A Sociology of Expectations: Retrospecting Prospects and Prospecting Retrospects

By Nik Brown, M. Michael. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 2003

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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On Organizing Algorithms (2015, background): “…and clients are called upon to witness and corroborate an account of the near future (for more on staging the future of technologies see Brown, 2003; Brown and Michael, 2003; Coopmans, 2010; Smith, 2009; Suchman, 2011); continuous searching for a new stream of data to be collected and codiﬁed and…”
Ordering theories: Typologies and conceptual frameworks for sociotechnical change (2017, neutral): “Brown and Michael (2003) highlight the difficulty of generalizing findings from expectations studies because they are so context dependent and unique.”
Locative media and data-driven computing experiments (2016, background): “…as the moments of failed futures in the past, and therefore highlighting moments of breakthrough glosses over the extended histories that led to successful experiments, and misrepresents drawbacks and contingencies present in scientific and technological developments (Brown and Michael, 2003).”
Arenas of expectations for hydrogen technologies (2011, background): “The idea of expectations as key element of technological innovation was examined by Van Lente [12,13], and has been developed into a ‘sociology of expectations’ [11,14].”
Patterns of expectations for emerging sustainable technologies (2012, methodology): “In order to better understand the role of expectations in these three technological trajectories the paper proceeds as follows: First, Section 2 elaborates on the role of expectations in innovation processes as described in the literature [14,35,23].”
Comparing technological hype cycles: Towards a theory (2013, background): “Following Brown and Michael’s [10] suggestion, discourses of ‘superlatives’ and ‘revolution’ or ‘breakthrough’ were taken to be indicative for hype and were labeled as very positive expectations.”
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).”