READY, STEADY, DIGITAL?! How foresight activities do (NOT) affect individual technological frames for managerial SENSEMAKING

This article intended to explore technological frames held by organisational group members that implicitly served to shape their interpretations of events to give meaning and deliver actions in knowledge management procedures. The research used the existing technological frame (Orlikowski & Gash, 1994) concept to interpret the social aspect of the problems associated with the introduction and utilisation of information technology in conducting knowledge management systems. This research was carried out in the context of four different industries in Taiwan and four cases based on each industry were chosen.

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Technological frames and the politics of automated electric Light Rail Rapid Transit in Poland and the United Kingdom

Technology in Society ◽

10.1016/j.techsoc.2019.101190 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 59 ◽

pp. 101190 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Benjamin K. Sovacool ◽

Asieh Haieri Yazdi

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Light Rail ◽

Rapid Transit ◽

Technological Frames ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Electric Light ◽

Rail Rapid Transit

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NOT NATURAL, NOR NEUTRAL: THE CULTURAL CONFIGURATIONS OF SOCIAL MEDIA AFFORDANCES WITHIN CHILEAN INFLUENCER INDUSTRY

AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research ◽

10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11160 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Arturo Arriagada ◽

Ignacio Siles

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Constitutive Relationship ◽

Spatial Expansion ◽

Cultural Contexts ◽

Technological Frames ◽

Global Norms ◽

Temporal And Spatial ◽

The One ◽

Technological Frame

This paper explores the configurations of social media’s affordances within the Chilean influencer industry. Chile has a growing number of professional social media influencers who blur global norms and local markets, working with both local brands and international campaigns. We argue for situating affordances within a wider context in which the features of platforms acquire particular meanings. Our analysis focuses on two dynamics. On the one hand, we examine how the Chilean influencer industry is shaped by a technological frame (Bijker, 1995) that structures the valence of affordances. We show that affordances are not “naturally” or “neutrally” imagined by actors but rather culturally located within technological frames that shape the discourses, values, and practices from which they obtain cultural meaning. On the other hand, we analyze how affordances provide a material support for the temporal and spatial expansion of technological frames. Thus, cultural contexts and platforms’ features mutually constitute each other in ways that have not always been recognized in the scholarly literature about affordances. We situate negotiations about what it means to be an influencer in Chile, the role of intermediaries (e.g. branding agencies), communication with followers, and the global influencer industry as part of this mutually constitutive relationship.

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