ISBN:
9780191555176
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (264 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.4/833
Keywords:
Technological innovations
;
Computer networks
;
Internet
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Integrating concepts from multiple theoretical disciplines and detailed analyses of the evolution of Internet-related innovations (including computer networking, the World Wide Web and the Linux open source operating system), this book develops foundations for a new theoretical and practical understanding of innovation. It covers topics ranging from fashion to history of art, and includes the most detailed analysis of the open source development model so farpublished.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Innovation as Multifocal Development of Social Practice -- 2.1 Putting the User in Focus -- 2.2 Use as Meaningful Practice -- 2.3 Production as an End -- 2.4 Investment and Invention of Meaning -- 2.5 Community as the Locus of Practice -- 2.6 Interpretative Flexibility and Ecology of Social Practices -- 2.7 Social Drivers of Innovation -- 2.8 Individual Exploration -- 2.9 Spaces of Novelty -- 2.10 Dynamics of Networked Innovation Spaces -- 3. Inventing the Web -- 3.1 The First WorldWideWeb Proposal -- 3.2 State of the Art: KMS -- 3.3 Architecture of the WorldWideWeb -- 3.4 Mobilizing Resources -- 3.5 The Vision of Xanadu -- 3.6 Sources of Success -- 4. The Making of the Internet -- 4.1 Laying the Infrastructure -- 4.2 Networking the World -- 4.3 Competing Technologies -- 4.4 Message-packets and Resilient Networks: Innovation at RAND -- 4.5 Time-sharing and Network Society: Work at NPL -- 4.6 Interactive Computing: Augmenting the Human Mind -- 4.7 Time-sharing and On-line Communities -- 4.8 IPTO: Translating Ideas into Money and Technology -- 5. Analysis of the Early Phase of Internet Development -- 5.1 Technological Frames -- 5.2 Resource Mobility in the Early Phases of Internet History -- 6. Socio-Cognitive Spaces of Innovation and Meaning Creation -- 6.1 Thought Collectives -- 6.2 Speech Genre and Chronotope -- 6.3 Communities of Practice -- 6.4 Social Learning in Communities of Practice -- 6.5 The Concept of ba -- 7. Breaking through a Technological Frame -- 7.1 Two Evolutionary Paths of Communities -- 7.2 Development of Specialization, Division of Labour, and New Technological Frames -- 7.3 Combinatorial Innovation in an Ecology of Communities -- 7.4 Layered ba and Combinatorial Innovation -- 8. Combination and Specialization in the Evolution of the Internet.
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