Creating technological knowledge in vintage communities of practice
Creating technological knowledge in vintage communities of practice
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在老式实践社区中创造技术知识
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
7
通讯作者:
Stefano Borzillo
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作者:
Francesco Schiavone;Stefano Borzillo
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how members of a “vintage community of practice” (CoP) – the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) community – recombine old technological knowledge with new technological knowledge. A vintage CoP is a group of aficionados of old technology who keep using it even after superior new technologies have emerged and technological change has taken place. This paper presents mechanisms through which developers and gamers in the MAME community and its subcommunities or hubs select and recombine old and new technology to update old arcade videogames in a format that is playable on current personal computers (PCs). Design/methodological approach – An inductive single-case exploratory case study was conducted in the MAME community. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with core community members to uncover mechanisms through which old technology-related knowledge (T-RK) was combined with new T-RK to update old versions of arcade video games into software versions...
影响因子:
10.6
作者:
Bilder,RobertM
通讯作者:
Bilder,RobertM