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What is technography?
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Technography has recently been proposed as an interdisciplinary methodology for the detailed study of the use of skills, tools, knowledge and techniques in everyday life. This paper argues that technography is a useful methodological approach for the integrative study of social–technical configurations. Technography focuses on how teams or networks of farmers, technicians and engineers, amongst other actors, solve problems. The key characteristics of the technographic approach are discussed, using examples drawn from agricultural production. The concept of performance helps to distinguish technography from some common agronomic as well as social science approaches to technological change. We conclude that technography, which is basically a methodology, needs to be complemented with a social analysis of concrete political, economic and cultural processes that co-evolve with technological change.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jansen, K., & Vellema, S.
- Affiliations
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Jansen, K.
- Venue
- NJAS: Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2011-02-01
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 3-4
- Pages
- 169-177
- ISSN
- 1573-5214 (ISSN-L)
- 2212-1307
- OpenAlex
- W2035032503
- Cited by
- 122
- References
- 85
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 17.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Keywords
- technography, technological change, agricultural production, problem solving, performance, interdisciplinary methodology
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