Calestous Juma, "Juma, Calestous. 2016. Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies. First edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.", contributed by Angela Okune, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 29 October 2018, accessed 1 September 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/juma-calestous-2016-innovation-and-its-enemies-why-people-resist-new-technologies-first
Critical Commentary
AO: This 2016 book by Calestous Juma aims to demonstrate how different social systems responded to new technologies and how these co-evolved with social institutions. Juma highlights that the phenomenon of resistance to innovation is seriously under-researched and that greater attention needs to paid to better understand why promising innovations do not become successful.