SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mcgraw-Hill Education, Judy Wajcman, Digital Imaging

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3116
• Professor: Stephan Larose

Document Summary

Competence base (scienti c and tacit knowledge, design methods and criteria): Business model (goal, strategy, production chain, organizational structure): > you press the button, we do the rest -kodak slogan. > vertical integration: basic research, manufacturing, sales, marketing, photo- nishing. -> 1st, the rest became much less to do since digital imaging removed the need for. -> 2nd, the rest resulted in a huge inertia and heavy burden since they had invested so much into it. -> 3rd, no competence base to do the rest in the digital era. The rest was now done by hardware and software rms like adobe, flickr, Enrollment of other groups to organize support for one"s artifact. Functional failure vs basic assumptions of the tf. Size and number of wheels, method of foot propulsion, women"s clothing, etc. >"the malleability of technology, the possibility for choice, the basic insight that things could have been otherwise" (p. 280).