The Symbolic Dimension of Innovation Processes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3759250 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicola Cavalli (0000-0001-8606-7756, University of Milan–Bicocca, Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 958-969 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764206298321 |
| OpenAlex | W1981376212 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 10 |
The sociology of technology and the sociology of science still make little use of findings in rhetorical and linguistic fields. This article analyzes the conditions under which an invention might become an innovation, paying particular attention to the symbolic level. The article, thus, analyzes the role of communication in the social process of innovation and proposes to use the concepts of discourse community and communicative genre to tackle the symbolic dimension of innovation processes, applying them to the case of e-books, taken as an invention that has not yet become a true social innovation. A textual analysis, together with the discussion of the results of two empirical studies, is proposed to analyze the social, linguistic, and communicative aspects of the innovation process
Dimension (graph theory) · Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Process (computing) · Public relations · Rhetorical device · Rhetorical question · Social innovation · Social science · Sociology · Symbolic interactionism · The Symbolic · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Open Source Software Innovations · Psychology
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Verba Volant, Scripta Manent
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2024 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |