Abstract The Internet of Things is widely considered to be of major–and increasing–
significance as a global socio-technical phenomenon. However, answering the question of …

Purpose This paper aims to study the evolution of definitions of internet of things (IoT)
through time, critically assess the knowledge these definitions contain and facilitate …

This work is an attempt to provide a definition of the word 'Things' in the context of the
Internet of Things (IoT). It does this partly by reviewing the existing descriptions of, and …

The Internet of Things is a hyped term and many definitions for it exist. Worse still, it comes
with a lot of related terminology that is not used uniformly either, hindering scientific …

Accessible, thoughtful, and reasoned explorations focusing on the substance of the Internet
of Things (IOT) are rare. Bunz and Meikle's concise and critical exploration of IOT takes a …

We investigate the emerging meanings of “value” associated with the Internet of Things.
Given the current political economy, we argue that the multiple meanings of “value” cannot …

• Our work and life are increasingly dependent on the WWW, which is now beyond a
collection of static HTML pages that describe scattered things in the world.• Growingly, the …

In this paper we introduce our readers to Internet of Things, what it is, how it works and
providing statistics on society knowledge and thoughts about this subject. Data gathered for …

Social studies of technology and particularly the sociology of technology have long explored
the reticulations between technology and social life. More specifically, the sociology of …

This thesis was developed based on a scenario in which a CEO of a certain company asked
the author to conduct an exploratory work evaluating the potential opportunities and …