Thierry Bardini

Thierry Bardini is a French sociologist who did all his academic career outside France. He is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal, Canada, where he co-directs the Workshop in Radical Empiricism (with Brian Massumi).

Thierry holds a degree of "ingénieur agronome" (1986) and did his first work on agriculture production systems. He wrote his PhD thesis on technical systems in agriculture [BARDINI, T. (1991) "Modèle technique et modernisation. Le cas du lait de brebis dans le rayon de Roquefort, 1950-1985". Université Nanterre Paris XI.] . He also did fieldwork on the history of agriculture in Venezuela [ARVANITIS, R. & BARDINI, T. (1990) Le rôle de l'ingénieur agronome dans la situation politique de l'agriculture vénézuélienne: 1936-1948. Cahiers des Sciences Humaines, 26, 429-446. ARVANITIS, R. & BARDINI, T. (1992) El papel del ingeniero agrónomo en el contexto político de la agricultura venezolana. IN FREITES, Y. & TEXERA, Y. (Eds.) Tiempos de cambio. La ciencia en Venezuela 1936-1948. Caracas, Fondo Editorial Acta Científica Venezolana.] and on a multi-disciplinary research project around the jack-bean "Canavalia ensiformis" agriculture and similar topics in Venezuela [ARVANITIS, R. & BARDINI, T. (1992) Analyse d'un programme multidisciplinaire de recherche par deux méthodes d'analyse des réseaux: le cas du groupe de Recherche sur Canavalia. IN ARVANITIS, R. & GAILLARD, J. (Eds.) Les indicateurs de science pour les pays en développement / Science Indicators for Developing Countries. Paris, Editions de l'ORSTOM.] , before working in the United States on innovation diffusion under the direction of Everett Rogers at the Annenberg School for Communication University of Southern California. He then left for Université de Montréal.

Thierry Bardini has authored many papers and books on innovation, sociology of technology, and hypermedia: he is the author of "Bridging the Gulfs: From Hypertext to Cyberspace", where he described the history of hypertext through the visions of two early pioneers in the field: Douglas Engelbart and Ted Nelson.

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.

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See the recent project drawn from his seminar: [http://www.junkware.net/ junkware]