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The gathering pace of IT innovation has, or ought to have had
notable methodological repercussions for the social-science
community (and beyond). Where yesterday the researcher could
unhurriedly unlock the social-scientific significance of a chosen
medium, secure in the knowledge that his or her work would
have bearing for many years, by now there is every reason to
confront a fear that the prodded IT implementation may in fact
be gone or at least heavily altered by the time such comprehensive
research is concluded. This paper will propose a complementing
systematic “interface-centric” research model capable
of interconnecting a non-finite variety of IT implementations
and social science studies in a coherent way. The paper also
outlines how users “downstream”, whether political actors or
technology operators can use the proposed framework to more
easily approach and weight academic input when evaluating
complex IT effects.
