Users as Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States

By R. Kline, T. Pinch. 1996

L'automobile a certes transforme la societe rurale aux Etats-Unis, mais l'A. demontre egalement que les fermiers ont participe a la construction de l'automobile en soumettant des idees de modifications technologiques destinees a faciliter l'utilisation de l'automobile en milieu rural

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Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems (2019, background): “The SCOT literature documents many examples in which the power of a relevant social group impacted closure, ranging from the Model T Ford to the electric refrigerator, DRM, and Betamax [18, 28, 30, 43].”
Motivation, Governance, and the Viability of Hybrid Forms in Open Source Software Development (2006, background): “…beyond the domain of software: innovative communities have been inﬂuential in ﬁelds as diverse as astronomy (Ferris 2002), automobiles (Franz 2005, Kline and Pinch 1996), sports equipment (Franke and Shah 2003, Shah 2000), personal computers (Freiberger and Swaine 2000), and video games…”
Fear and loathing of electric vehicles: The reactionary rhetoric of range anxiety (2019, background): “For example, the rhetoric of reaction and the social construction of technology (SCOT), have ready connections, particularly the role of reactionary rhetoric in interpretive flexibility and embedding anti-technology scripts (40,41).”
Staying open to interpretation: engaging multiple meanings in design and evaluation (2006, background): “The third is results from the sociology of technology [25,34,31] which demonstrate that even when a single interpretation of a technology is eventually established, this happens in a messy, complex, and protracted process involving negotiation among a variety of social groups.”
Insights and New Directions from Demand-Side Approaches to Technology Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management Research (2012, background): “…opportunities, research in user entrepreneurship demonstrates how the demands of a user or user community can lead to innovations that are ultimately commercialized by the users themselves (Franke & Shah, 2003; Huefner & Hunt, 1994; Kline & Pinch, 1996; Shah, 2005; Shah & Tripsas, 2007).”
Social influence and consumer preference formation for pro-environmental technology: The case of a U.K. workplace electric-vehicle study (2013, background): “As expected by the theory of translation (Kline and Pinch, 1996; Pinch and Bijker, 1984), some participants used such interactions to discuss or resolve important controversies, such as the uncertain ability of BEVs to reduce lifecycle environmental impacts.”