The article provides an overview of emerging disruptive technologies. These technical
innovations render existing technologies and social relations obsolete or radically altered …

Sociotechnical transitions are milestones for the impacts of innovations on civilization. What
is the relationship between sociotechnical transition and disruptive innovations? A …

The social study of technology is currently undergoing an expansion and a transformation.
One impetus for this development is the application of many of the ideas and approaches of …

David Edge Reader in the Social Sciences Unit at the University of Edinburgh This paper
was originally drafted in 1987, to stimulate discussion among the Edinburgh Group about …

This theoretical paper describes the effect of social action on technological artifacts and
explores how innovation may flourish or be diminished in society. Using the Social …

The ideas of technological determinism and the autonomy of technology are long-standing
and widespread. This article explores why the use of certain technologies is perceived to be …

Research on information systems and organizations has recently moved away from
managerialistic and 'technicist'interpretations and positivist and essentialist ontologies. IS …

At the beginning of the third millennium the world is undergoing major social, economic and
technological changes, a third Industrial Revolution. This revolution is linked to the new …

This paper praises and criticizes Peter-Paul Verbeek's What Things Do (2006). The four
things that Verbeek does well are:(1) remind us of the importance of technological things;(2) …

Technoscientific research, a kind of scientific research conducted within the
decontextualized approach (DA), uses advanced technology to produce instruments …