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Heidi Christina Gautschi

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You Talking to Me? The TED digital infrastructure as a Recognition Device

Gianluigi Viscusi, Heidi Christina Gautschi

This article investigates the TED digital infrastructure for translating Science and Technology projects. Specifically, we seek to investigate the TED infrastructures generative mechanisms and their relation to valuation mechanisms and practices. The resea ...

Academy of Management2018

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In this article, we explore the use of hackathons and open data in corporations’ open innovation portfolios, addressing a new way for companies to tap into the creativity and innovation of early-stage startup culture, in this case applied to the food and n ...

2018

Valuation, Recognition, and Signaling in the Digital Public Sphere: the TED Talk Ranking Ecosystem

Gianluigi Viscusi, Heidi Christina Gautschi

In the past few years a new actor, who is playing an increasingly important role in ranking ideas and the scholars who share them, has emerged: the TED organization. While debate has surrounded popular academic research output rankings such as, impact fact ...

Springer2017

Sounds of Science: Translating Science and Technology Projects with TED

Gianluigi Viscusi, Heidi Christina Gautschi

TED has become a powerful vector for disseminating information and consequently influencing public opinion on a broad range of subjects. While TED talks are immensely popular (Sugimoto et al., 2013), there has not been much scholarly research on this form ...

2016

Ideas “worth” spreading: Female representation in the TED talk sphere

Gianluigi Viscusi, Heidi Christina Gautschi

Nowadays, the complexity of the relationships information has with power and control, business and ideology has been amplified, in part because the networks information now flows over are more complex and farther reaching than prior networks (Chadwick & Ho ...

2016

The underlying theme of our project is that society in its quest for order in an inherently chaotic natural setting tends to think about technological innovation much too narrowly, and this causes at least two kinds of problems. The first is the narrow att ...

Palgrave Macmillan2016

Information-based recognition: TED talks and the institutional fabric of valuable innovation

Gianluigi Viscusi, Heidi Christina Gautschi

Information has long been considered a commodity, something that organizations and individuals can trade for financial gain (Chandler, 1993). And, the networks via which information flowed have long had a conflictual relationship with power and control, bu ...

2016

Translating innovation with information infrastructures: the case of TED as a valuation device

Gianluigi Viscusi, Heidi Christina Gautschi

This article aims to investigate the TED infrastructure for translating Science and Technology (S&T) projects (Callon, 1981, 1986; Law, 2006). The analysis uses the concepts of recognition (Honneth, 2012) and the public sphere as interpretative lenses for ...

2015

Mind the Gap? Translating science and technology projects with TED

Gianluigi Viscusi, Heidi Christina Gautschi

The term ‘translational research’ appeared in Pubmed for the first time around 1993 (van der Laan & Boenink, 2012). Translational research aims to identify and challenge the “translational gaps’’ (T gaps) hindering the transformation of discoveries in the ...

2015

This paper seeks to investigate the TED infrastructure as a dispositif (Agamben, 2006; Bussolini, 2010)for translating Science and Technology (S&T) projects. We aim to adopt the concept of cultural capital as an interpretative lens for analyzing the dynami ...

2015