Blockchain innovation and framing in the Netherlands: How a technological object turns into a ‘hyperobject’
| Autor: | Eva Kalmar, Ingrid van Marion, Maarten C. A. van der Sanden, Bas Hillebrand, Arnoud Lagendijk |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Blockchain
Sociology and Political Science 020209 energy Corporate governance 05 social sciences Human Factors and Ergonomics 02 engineering and technology Education Newspaper Framing (social sciences) Enabling Political science 0502 economics and business 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Business and International Management Institute for Management Research 050203 business & management Law and economics |
| Zdroj: | Technology in Society, 59, pp. 1-10 Technology in Society, 59, 1-10 Technology in Society, 59 |
| ISSN: | 0160-791X |
| Popis: | Blockchain emerged as a well-defined technological object with limited applicability applications (e.g. Bitcoin). Embraced by more and more ‘stakeholders’, Blockchain has turned into a bounty of possibilities and promises. This raises the question whether Blockchain is turning into an overextending, affective ‘hyperobject’. Adopting a post-ANT topological perspective, and using mixed-methods analysis, this paper traces Blockchain's recent developments in the Netherlands. A media analysis of newspaper items shows a telling divide between stakeholders (including incumbents) stressing Blockchain's radicalising prospects and those (notably involved knowledge and policy workers) warning of its overhyping and lack of governance capacities. A detailed analysis of strategies and operations of the key enabler, the Dutch Blockchain Coalition, reveals how much effort has gone into face-to-face encounters and communication to frame and script the object. Yet, this also causes Blockchain to proliferate in all kinds of directions, turning into a hyperobject beyond the reach of intellectual and practical grasp. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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