Reflections on the Gestation of Polymorphic Innovation: The Exploitation of Emergence in Social Network Development via Text Messaging
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: The impact of mobile text messaging is re-interpreted as an emergent technology that has accidentally been instrumental in the configuration of new social networks on a global scale.Using the unintended consequences of this implicit revolution in interpersonal communication as a catalyst for the generation of ideas, the argument is advanced that this is a manifestation of a new type of creative communication which we have identified as Polymorphic Innovation, a quasiintuitive perturbation on conventional notions of originality in the business development process.This paper describes the qualitative data collected during a pilot of a Short Messaging service (SMS) system in a University.The effect SMS use had on communication style and the construction of social networks are discussed.
DOI: 10.28945/1194
Authors: John Lenarcic, Joan Richardson
Institution: RMIT University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W52014662