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Technology and the Promise of Decentralization: Origins, Development, Patterns of Arguments
Technik und das Versprechen der Dezentralisierung
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Universität Stuttgart, Fak. 10 Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften Abt. VI Organisations- und Innovationssoziologie
Abstract Digitalization has long been associated with the promise of a technology-enabled decentralization of social conditions. Although such expectations have regularly fallen short, their underlying generic vision has proven to be astonishingly stable. This paper strives to trace the origin of the notion ... view more
Digitalization has long been associated with the promise of a technology-enabled decentralization of social conditions. Although such expectations have regularly fallen short, their underlying generic vision has proven to be astonishingly stable. This paper strives to trace the origin of the notion of decentralizing socio-economic forms of coordination through technological means—from the do-it-yourself scene of the late 1960s, the computer counterculture of the 1970s and the 1980s, and the debates on cyberspace and Web 2.0 in the 1990s and 2000s to present day ideas of decentralized and distributed forms of production and economic systems. An elaboration of the basic patterns of arguments behind technology-based promises of decentralization and their communicative functions then follows.... view less
Keywords
technological progress; virtual reality; socioeconomic structure; Internet; web 2.0; innovation; digitalization; decentralization
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Free Keywords
Technology; Decentralization; Expectations
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
City
Stuttgart
Page/Pages
25 p.
ISSN
2191-4990
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0