What is it about?
Boundary objects are entities that enhance the capacity of an idea, theory or practice to translate across culturally defined boundaries, for example, between communities of knowledge or practice. This article develops the theory and argues that there positive and negative boundary objects, and that technological devices or processes may themselves act as facilitative or inhibitory boundary objects during innovation.
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Why is it important?
The approach set out here has potential as a sociologically informed model of improving adoption of technologies and policies by managing the positive and negative social meanings of technology objects.
Perspectives
Addresses one way in which non-human objects affect social processes within material/semiotic assemblages.
Professor Nick J Fox
University of Huddersfield
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This page is a summary of: Boundary Objects, Social Meanings and the Success of New Technologies, Sociology, February 2011, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0038038510387196.
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