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The production and implementation of digital technologies face multiple restrictions, limitations, obstacles, and barriers. The more ubiquitous they become, the more social situations and interactions they take part in. One of the possible ways to understand more about digitalization is to deconstruct the process of dissemination of technologies and innovations as well as intangible knowledge. The paper represents a mixture review of methodological perspectives, which help to grasp the complexity of sociotechnical relations. It involves studies of the knowledge production, artifacts spreading, and innovation diffusion in order to approach digitalization as sociotechnical phenomena.
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The research is supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant (RSF No17-78-20164) “Sociotechnical barriers of the implementation and use of information technologies in Russia: sociological analysis.
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Zemnukhova, L.V. (2018). Digitalization as a Sociotechnical Process: Some Insights from STS. In: Alexandrov, D., Boukhanovsky, A., Chugunov, A., Kabanov, Y., Koltsova, O. (eds) Digital Transformation and Global Society. DTGS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 859. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02846-6_10
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