Jim Milne, Student at the Department of Anthropology from University of South Florida, last month wrote an paper about the The Technology Adoption Cycle in Weblogs [Word Doc]. He also made some kind of self-experience for his work by having his own weblog. Well, we may call that fieldwork.

What he want's to proove is the following: "The outcome of this study is a redefinition of technological innovation. The study shows that the tools and techniques that come to be known as a technology follow the creation and adoption of the practices they contain. If technology is not just artifacts and production processes, but also the contexts of the use of that object, and the practices engaged in by people using it, then the complex of emergent meanings that describe and explain it precede the technology itself. Paradoxically, the practices come to exist, and then the tools are developed to accomplish them. This redefinition of technological innovation is meant to refute the notion that technology ?causes? social change. More correctly, social practices change, and technology shifts accordingly."

For more information and a list of literature you may take a look at his First Draft Dissertation.

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