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Everyday Innovators: Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)

By Leopoldina Fortunati , Leslie Haddon , Enid Mante , Bartolomeo Sapio , Kari-Hans Kommonen , Annevi Kant

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
1402035101, 9781402035104, 9781402038723
LCC
HM851 .E95 2005
Open Library ID
OL19292315M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1721007 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
238\247
Topic
Computers
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Everyday Innovators explores the active role of people, collectively and individually, in shaping the use of information and communication technologies. It examines issues around acquiring and using that knowledge of users, how we should conceptualise the role of users and understand the forms and limitations of their participation. To what extent should we think of users as being innovative and creative? To what extent is this routine or exceptional, confined to particular group of users or part of many people’s experience of technologies? Where does the nature of the ICT or the particularities of its design impose constraints on the active role that users can play in their interaction with devices and services? Where do the horizons and orientations of the users influence or limit what they want and expect of their ICTs and how they use them? This book enables a cross-fertilisation of perspectives from different disciplines and aims to provide new insights into the role of users, drawing out both applied and theoretical implications

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