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12 November 2004
A new "evolutionary" post format
The next post starts a thread of monographs dedicated to evolving lifestyles as communication technology innovations become an integral part of the personal, domestic and professional spheres. Each monograph offers a synthetic view of the role that communication technologies play within each of the social spheres.
Monographs will be updated on a regular basis and gradually extended both in depth, to achieve a finer grained understanding of emerging usages, and in breath, to cover a wider range of people, cultures and technologies. Socio-technical innovation, that is innovation emerging from the multiple interactions and couplings between social and technological trasnformations, is a historic process and as such needs to be captured in its unfolding. The posts' regular pace is meant to serve this purpose.
What is kept fixed over time is the focus on three, somehow artificial, social spheres: the personal, the domestic, the professional. What changes are adoption and usage patterns, under the joint action of institutions, markets, cultural representations, attitudes and needs, technological opportunities, and the multiple interactions between these different dimensions.
The first thread Inhabiting the networked home covers socio-technical innovation in the domestic sphere.
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