Neil Pollock
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 767121 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Neil Pollock |
| PRENOMES | Neil |
| SOBRENOME | Pollock |
| ASSINATURA | POLLOCK N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9960-2081 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 112 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Market Studies
Market studies is a newly emerging field dedicated to understanding the origins, core concepts, theories and methods currently being used and developed to examine markets in the making. Providing a unique overview that introduces, positions and develops this highly fertile area of research, Market Studies is the first book to consolidate its themes, tools and methods in a single, comprehensive volume. Topics covered include: market organization a…
Thinking Infrastructures
Method Matters in the Social Study of Technology
Science and Technology Studies understandings of technological change are at odds with its own dominant research designs and methodological guidelines. A key insight from the social shaping of technology research, for instance, has been that new technologies are formed in multiple interlinked settings, by many different groups of actors over long periods of time. Nonetheless, common research designs have not kept pace with these conceptual advanc…
The venues of high tech prediction
The managed prosumer
This paper contributes to the reworking of the traditional concepts and methods of Science and Technology Studies that is necessary in order to analyse the development and use of social media and other emerging information infrastructures (IIs). Through long-term studies of the development of two contrasting IIs, the paper examines the prosumer-management strategies by which vendors manage their relationships with their diverse users. Despite the…
From Artefacts to Infrastructures
E-Infrastructures
The business of expectations
The business of technological expectations has yet to be explored thoroughly by scholars interested in the role of expectations and visions in the emergence of technological innovations. However, intermediaries specializing in the production, commodification and selling of future-oriented knowledge have emerged to exert new kinds of influence on the shaping of technology and innovation. We focus on the work of those specialist forms of consultant…
Global Software and its Provenance
This paper addresses the seemingly implausible project of establishing a 'generic' organizational information system. This is an apparent contradiction: on the one hand, we are told of the diversity of specific organizational contexts and on the other, we often find the same standardized software solutions being applied across those settings. How do generic software packages work in so many different contexts? Science and Technology Studies provi…
When Is a Work-Around? Conflict and Negotiation in Computer Systems Development
The notion of a "work-around" is a much-used resource within the sociology of technology, reflecting an interest in showing how users are not simply shaped by technologies but how they, through adopting artifacts in ways other than those for which they were designed or intended, are also shapers of technology. Using the language and concerns of actor-network theory and focusing on recent developments within computer-systems implementation, this a…
The 'Self-service' Student
This article investigates the take-up by universities of enterprise-wide computer systems and the development of a new module for the management and administration of students. Having its origins in Electronic Commerce, the system assumes the existence of a certain kind of user, one with particular roles and responsibilities--Aa self-service user. The notion of 'self-service' is deployed as an integral part of the system rollout where students ar…
The Theory and Practice of the Virtual University
The Virtual University as 'Timely and Accurate Information'
This article investigates the implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning System in a redbrick university in the UK. The first part is concerned with the way in which the Implementation Project Team has come to conceptualise its task or mission and represent it both to itself and to the rest of the University. On one hand, the discussion is about the rolling-out of a rather mundane information system, purchased simply as a replacement for a…
Environment and Land Use in Africa
Journal Article Environment and Land Use in Africa Get access Environment and Land Use in Africa, edited by M. F. Thomas and G. W. Whittington. Methuen, 1969. 560pp. 90s. N. POLLOCK N. POLLOCK University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 274, January 1970, Pages 77-78, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095967 Published: 01 January 1970
The business of expectations
The business of technological expectations has yet to be explored thoroughly by scholars interested in the role of expectations and visions in the emergence of technological innovations. However, intermediaries specializing in the production, commodification and selling of future-oriented knowledge have emerged to exert new kinds of influence on the shaping of technology and innovation. We focus on the work of those specialist forms of consultant…
Method Matters in the Social Study of Technology
Science and Technology Studies understandings of technological change are at odds with its own dominant research designs and methodological guidelines. A key insight from the social shaping of technology research, for instance, has been that new technologies are formed in multiple interlinked settings, by many different groups of actors over long periods of time. Nonetheless, common research designs have not kept pace with these conceptual advanc…
Environment and Land Use in Africa
Journal Article Environment and Land Use in Africa Get access Environment and Land Use in Africa, edited by M. F. Thomas and G. W. Whittington. Methuen, 1969. 560pp. 90s. N. POLLOCK N. POLLOCK University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 274, January 1970, Pages 77-78, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095967 Published: 01 January 1970
Global Software and its Provenance
This paper addresses the seemingly implausible project of establishing a 'generic' organizational information system. This is an apparent contradiction: on the one hand, we are told of the diversity of specific organizational contexts and on the other, we often find the same standardized software solutions being applied across those settings. How do generic software packages work in so many different contexts? Science and Technology Studies provi…
When Is a Work-Around? Conflict and Negotiation in Computer Systems Development
The notion of a "work-around" is a much-used resource within the sociology of technology, reflecting an interest in showing how users are not simply shaped by technologies but how they, through adopting artifacts in ways other than those for which they were designed or intended, are also shapers of technology. Using the language and concerns of actor-network theory and focusing on recent developments within computer-systems implementation, this a…
The venues of high tech prediction
Environment and Land Use in Africa
Journal Article Environment and Land Use in Africa Get access Environment and Land Use in Africa, edited by M. F. Thomas and G. W. Whittington. Methuen, 1969. 560pp. 90s. N. POLLOCK N. POLLOCK University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 274, January 1970, Pages 77-78, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095967 Published: 01 January 1970
The Virtual University as 'Timely and Accurate Information'
This article investigates the implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning System in a redbrick university in the UK. The first part is concerned with the way in which the Implementation Project Team has come to conceptualise its task or mission and represent it both to itself and to the rest of the University. On one hand, the discussion is about the rolling-out of a rather mundane information system, purchased simply as a replacement for a…
The Theory and Practice of the Virtual University
The 'Self-service' Student
This article investigates the take-up by universities of enterprise-wide computer systems and the development of a new module for the management and administration of students. Having its origins in Electronic Commerce, the system assumes the existence of a certain kind of user, one with particular roles and responsibilities--Aa self-service user. The notion of 'self-service' is deployed as an integral part of the system rollout where students ar…
When Is a Work-Around? Conflict and Negotiation in Computer Systems Development
The notion of a "work-around" is a much-used resource within the sociology of technology, reflecting an interest in showing how users are not simply shaped by technologies but how they, through adopting artifacts in ways other than those for which they were designed or intended, are also shapers of technology. Using the language and concerns of actor-network theory and focusing on recent developments within computer-systems implementation, this a…
Global Software and its Provenance
This paper addresses the seemingly implausible project of establishing a 'generic' organizational information system. This is an apparent contradiction: on the one hand, we are told of the diversity of specific organizational contexts and on the other, we often find the same standardized software solutions being applied across those settings. How do generic software packages work in so many different contexts? Science and Technology Studies provi…
E-Infrastructures
The business of expectations
The business of technological expectations has yet to be explored thoroughly by scholars interested in the role of expectations and visions in the emergence of technological innovations. However, intermediaries specializing in the production, commodification and selling of future-oriented knowledge have emerged to exert new kinds of influence on the shaping of technology and innovation. We focus on the work of those specialist forms of consultant…
From Artefacts to Infrastructures
The managed prosumer
This paper contributes to the reworking of the traditional concepts and methods of Science and Technology Studies that is necessary in order to analyse the development and use of social media and other emerging information infrastructures (IIs). Through long-term studies of the development of two contrasting IIs, the paper examines the prosumer-management strategies by which vendors manage their relationships with their diverse users. Despite the…
The venues of high tech prediction
Thinking Infrastructures
Method Matters in the Social Study of Technology
Science and Technology Studies understandings of technological change are at odds with its own dominant research designs and methodological guidelines. A key insight from the social shaping of technology research, for instance, has been that new technologies are formed in multiple interlinked settings, by many different groups of actors over long periods of time. Nonetheless, common research designs have not kept pace with these conceptual advanc…
Market Studies
Market studies is a newly emerging field dedicated to understanding the origins, core concepts, theories and methods currently being used and developed to examine markets in the making. Providing a unique overview that introduces, positions and develops this highly fertile area of research, Market Studies is the first book to consolidate its themes, tools and methods in a single, comprehensive volume. Topics covered include: market organization a…
Computer Science (9 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Information Systems Theories and Implementation (6 obras) · Knowledge management (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Engineering (5 obras) · Open Source Software Innovations (5 obras) · Social science (4 obras) · Economics (3 obras)