Thierry Bardini
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Thierry Bardini is a French
sociologist who did all his academic career outside France. He is a full professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal
, Canada
, where he co-directs the Workshop in Radical Empiricism (with Brian Massumi
).
Thierry holds a degree of "ingénieur agronome" (1986) and did his first work on agriculture production systems. He wrote his PhD thesis on technical systems in agriculture. He also did fieldwork on the history of agriculture
in Venezuela
and on a multi-disciplinary research project around the jack-bean
Canavalia ensiformis
agriculture and similar topics in Venezuela
, before working in the United States on innovation diffusion under the direction of Everett Rogers
at the University of Southern California
Annenberg School for Communication. He then left for Université de Montréal.
Thierry Bardini has authored many papers and books on innovation, sociology of technology, and hypermedia
: he is the author of Bridging the Gulfs: From Hypertext to Cyberspace, where he described the history of hypertext
through the visions of two early pioneers in the field: Douglas Engelbart
and Ted Nelson
.
In 2000, he published Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing, a book about Douglas Engelbart's career and the rise and fall of the Augmentation Research Center
at Stanford Research Institute
He has published a new book Junkware published in the Posthumanities Series at Minnesota Press in early 2011.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
sociologist who did all his academic career outside France. He is a full professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal
Université de Montréal
The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, where he co-directs the Workshop in Radical Empiricism (with Brian Massumi
Brian Massumi
Brian Massumi is a Canadian political philosopher and social theorist. Massumi's research spans the fields of art, architecture, political theory, cultural studies and philosophy. He received his Ph.D in French Literature from Yale University in 1987...
).
Thierry holds a degree of "ingénieur agronome" (1986) and did his first work on agriculture production systems. He wrote his PhD thesis on technical systems in agriculture. He also did fieldwork on the history of agriculture
in Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
and on a multi-disciplinary research project around the jack-bean
Canavalia ensiformis
Canavalia ensiformis
Canavalia ensiformis, or Jack-bean, is a legume which is used for animal fodder and human nutrition, especially in Brazil where it is called feijão-de-porco . It is also the source of concanavalin A.- Description :...
agriculture and similar topics in Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
, before working in the United States on innovation diffusion under the direction of Everett Rogers
Everett Rogers
Everett M. Rogers was a communication scholar, sociologist, writer, and teacher. He is best known for originating the diffusion of innovations theory and for introducing the term early adopter....
at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
Annenberg School for Communication. He then left for Université de Montréal.
Thierry Bardini has authored many papers and books on innovation, sociology of technology, and hypermedia
Hypermedia
Hypermedia is a computer-based information retrieval system that enables a user to gain or provide access to texts, audio and video recordings, photographs and computer graphics related to a particular subject.Hypermedia is a term created by Ted Nelson....
: he is the author of Bridging the Gulfs: From Hypertext to Cyberspace, where he described the history of hypertext
Hypertext
Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Hypertext is the...
through the visions of two early pioneers in the field: Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Carl Engelbart is an American inventor, and an early computer and internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on the challenges of human-computer interaction, resulting in the invention of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs...
and Ted Nelson
Ted Nelson
Theodor Holm Nelson is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" in 1963 and published it in 1965...
.
In 2000, he published Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing, a book about Douglas Engelbart's career and the rise and fall of the Augmentation Research Center
Augmentation Research Center
Stanford Research Institute's Augmentation Research Center was founded in the 1960s by electrical engineer Douglas Engelbart to develop and experiment with new tools and techniques for collaboration and information processing. The main product to come out of ARC was the revolutionary oN-Line...
at Stanford Research Institute
He has published a new book Junkware published in the Posthumanities Series at Minnesota Press in early 2011.