Blockchain Scenes: A Research Agenda

Over the last fifteen years, development of blockchain technologies has attracted a large volume professional expertise, capital investment and media attention. This burgeoning sector technology practices coalesced around few major initiatives (Bitcoin, Ethereum), but it is still moving at fast pace its configuration evolving. If this marked by variety technological protocols, financial arrangements organizational forms, also, we would argue, site social effervescence. Parties, meet-ups, sorts informal socializing which gather events networks all kinds function to endow with characteristics what, in cultural analysis, are often called “scenes”. The aim special issue examine interest notion scene for analysis practices. We argue that may be mobilized as useful analytical framework not only study practices, more generally. In introductory article, ask following questions: how can contribute understanding practices? And what sort research agenda does point to? sections first identify some “scenic” components phenomena. Then review discourses academic scholarship have framed these phenomena show perspective undertheorized context technology-related groupings. Finally, propose analyse main dimensions scenes, before presenting contributions issue. With issue, establish scenes junction STS analysis.