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http://dx.doi.org/10.7472/jksii.2014.15.2.109

A Study on the Interactions between the Actors of the 3D Broadcasting Standardization Process  

Song, Kyung Hee (Graduate School of Management of Technology, Yonsei University)
Kwak, Kyu Tae (College of Business, Dept. of Cultural Industry Management, Honam University)
Park, Soo Kyung (Graduate School of Management of Technology, Yonsei University)
Lee, Bong Gyou (Graduate School of Information, Yonsei University)
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Journal of Internet Computing and Services / v.15, no.2, 2014 , pp. 109-127 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study is devised out of the recognition that the existing standardization-related research has not sufficiently examined the overall social environment where a standard is actually made and diffused and the roles of the actors and the changes in them in the complex social system where multiple stakeholders exist. Against this backdrop, this study purports to reconstruct the dynamic process of developing and standardizing an innovative technology through a socio-technical approach involved by multiple stakeholders with different interests in the context of a socio-technical institutional environment. The specific goals to achieve the purpose include first, inspecting the characteristics of the interactions between the human actors and between the human and non-human actors in the socio-technical network surrounding a standardization process. Second, the study aimed to observe the activities of the focal actor who led the standardization process and its changing role. To that end, it analyzed the dynamic features of the process of standardizing a HD 3DTV broadcasting technology that took place in South Korea based on the actor network theory. As for the analysis method, the researchers personally took part in the actor network involving the new technology to analyze the dynamic characteristics of the network, applying the qualitative research method of survey and in-depth interviews and exploring the overall dynamics of environment, behavior and technology observed over the course of the entire standardization process.
Keywords
Standardization; Actor Network Theory; Socio-Technical Interpretation; 3D Broadcasting;
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