Thierry Bardini
Thierry Bardini is a French sociologist who has undertaken all of his academic career to date outside France. He is a full professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal, Canada, where he co-directs the Workshop in Radical Empiricism.
He has authored many papers and books on innovation, sociology of technology, and hypermedia.Education and career
Bardini holds a degree of "ingénieur agronome" and his first work was on agriculture production systems. He wrote his PhD thesis on technical systems in agriculture. He also did fieldwork on the history of agriculture
in Venezuela and on a multi-disciplinary research project around the jack-bean
Canavalia ensiformis agriculture and similar topics in Venezuela, before working in the United States on innovation diffusion under the direction of Everett Rogers at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication. He then left for Université de Montréal.Books
In 2000, he published Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing, a book about Douglas Engelbart's career and the rise and fall of the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute.
He has published a book titled Junkware in the Posthumanities Series at Minnesota Press in 2011.Selected publications
