TY - JOUR
T1 - Structures of Capital and Sociotechnical Change
T2 - The Case of Tech Startups and Venture Capital
AU - Shestakofsky, Benjamin
AU - Petre, Caitlin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 (Benjamin Shestakofsky, [email protected], and Caitlin Petre, [email protected]). Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd). Available at http://ijoc.org. All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This article argues that financing shapes processes of sociotechnical change in profound yet underexamined ways. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at two digital technology startups, we show how their dependence on venture capital (VC) influenced how they developed, marketed, and deployed products. Through this examination of VC-funded startups, we aim to make a broader point: Structures of capital should be central to studies of sociotechnical change.
AB - This article argues that financing shapes processes of sociotechnical change in profound yet underexamined ways. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at two digital technology startups, we show how their dependence on venture capital (VC) influenced how they developed, marketed, and deployed products. Through this examination of VC-funded startups, we aim to make a broader point: Structures of capital should be central to studies of sociotechnical change.
KW - digital technology
KW - finance
KW - sociotechnical change
KW - startups
KW - venture capital
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85189145774
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85189145774
SN - 1932-8036
VL - 18
SP - 800
EP - 807
JO - International Journal of Communication
JF - International Journal of Communication
ER -