Communication studies have since come up with new models that attribute a more active role to the receiver/adopter and that consider the message as the object of negotiation between the sender and receiver (Hall, 1980). However, at its heart, diffusion research has kept true to the linear Lasswell formula, with a linear understanding of diffusion from the inventor to the late adopters, with a static understanding of the innovation and with a passive perspective on the user, whose only choice of action lies between adoption and rejection.