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Thierry Bardini

b. 1960

French sociologist

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Born 1960. Thierry Bardini is a French sociologist.

Thierry Bardini (born 1960s) is a French sociologist, author of the book Bootstrapping, about Douglas Engelbart. He is a full professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal, Canada. He is known for his work on innovation and sociology of technology.

Education and career Bardini holds a degree in agronomy (1986) 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, where he co-directs the Workshop in Radical Empiricism (with Brian Massumi).

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.

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1960
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Université de Montréal

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French sociologist

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