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1249

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Taking a practice perspective, we seek a new understanding of digital innovation and how new technologies arise and come to be established, while older ones fall away and are displaced, with consequences for our work and everyday lives. We argue that in normal times, our conventional understanding of technological progress driven by entrepreneurship suffices to explain much, but that in times of crisis as with Covid, progress may instead be redirected, driven by what is termed practice shift, changes in everyday routines constituting practices. While with a crisis the break from normal progress may be a sharp one, with recovery the return to normality may be long and slow. Practice studies that focus on shift and recovery can help us better understand how crises and technological progress are intertwined with important consequences for us all.

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Dec 12th, 12:00 AM

Practice Shift and Digital Innovation in the Time of Covid

Taking a practice perspective, we seek a new understanding of digital innovation and how new technologies arise and come to be established, while older ones fall away and are displaced, with consequences for our work and everyday lives. We argue that in normal times, our conventional understanding of technological progress driven by entrepreneurship suffices to explain much, but that in times of crisis as with Covid, progress may instead be redirected, driven by what is termed practice shift, changes in everyday routines constituting practices. While with a crisis the break from normal progress may be a sharp one, with recovery the return to normality may be long and slow. Practice studies that focus on shift and recovery can help us better understand how crises and technological progress are intertwined with important consequences for us all.

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