Distributing intelligence and organizing diversity in new media projects

Authors

  • Monique Girard Columbia University
  • David Stark Columbia University

Keywords:

Web desing firms, Economic Sociology

Abstract

This paper examines how web design firms in the
new media industry probe and experiment with possible forms
and sources of value giving shape to the new economy. Focusing
on the collaborative engineering of cross-disciplinary webdesign
project teams, we examine how websites emerge as
provisional settlements among the heterogeneous disciplines
as they negotiate working compromises across competing
performance criteria.

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Author Biographies

Monique Girard, Columbia University

Center on Organizational Innovation, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University. 

David Stark, Columbia University

Department of Sociology, Columbia University. 

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2022-08-12

How to Cite

Girard, M. ., & Stark, D. . (2022). Distributing intelligence and organizing diversity in new media projects. Sociedade E Estado, 17(01), 153–192. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/sociedade/article/view/44649