Standards and Their (Recurring) Stories

How Augmented Reality Markup Language Was Built on Stories of Past Standards

Bibliographic Data

ID5337730
AuthorsT Liao (0000-0003-1889-3831, University of Cincinnati, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume45
Issue4
Pages712-737
Publication date2020-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243919867417
OpenAlexW2966477485
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited27

This article focuses on the role of past standards stories and how they are deployed strategically in ways that shape the process of standards creation. It draws upon an ethnographic study over multiple years of standards meetings, discussions, and online activity. Building on existing work that examines how standards are shaped by stories, this study follows the development of Augmented Reality Markup Language and maps how the story of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) became the key story that actors utilized and debated to push for participation, agreement, and material development of the standard. The authors present several different ways the recurring HTML story was effective at various points in the process as a diagnostic tool, promissory future, empirical evidence, and confidence building measure. Understanding these strategic deployments serves as an empirical example of how recurring stories of the past can shape standards development. These mappings illustrate how standards can be built on past standards sociologically as well as technologically and also broadens our theoretical tools for understanding the importance of stories in the sociology of standards

Augmented reality · Ethnography · Human–computer interaction · Markup language · Sociology · World Wide Web · XML · Computer Science · Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts · Information Systems Theories and Implementation

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