[Air-l] innovation and its history

elijah wright elw at stderr.org
Wed Jul 21 12:55:06 PDT 2004



Hi Thomas,

Check out Everett Rogers' "Diffusion of Innovations" - his work is
canonical for work in this area.  Even those who disagree with his
thinking cite it... :)

--elijah


> From: Thomas N.Burg <editor at randgaenge.net>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm in the midst of starting a paper on the history of innovation. I'm
> > interested how new technologies are accepted, incorporated, rejected,
> > or killed and how they are agents of transformation (I'm aware of the
> > work of Elizabeth Eisenstein) - basically I will do research on the
> > language and the concepts that are used/created. I'm especially
> > interested in internet technologies and webpublishing technologies
> > (... social software).
> >
> > Now I wonder if you could point me to some relevant literature on that
> > topic that could help me to jumpstart into my research.
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> > Thomas N. Burg
> > Center for New Media
> > Danube University Krems
> > http://randgaenge.net
> > http://wiki.randgaenge.net
> > http://blogtalk.net
> > http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/znm




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