Everyday Innovators: Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICT’s

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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 Introduction....Pages 1-16 Front Matter....Pages 17-20 Beyond User-Centric Models of Product Creation....Pages 21-38 Following the Emergence of Unpredictable Uses? New Stakes and Tasks for a Social Scientific Understanding of Ict Uses....Pages 39-53 The Innovatory Use of ICTs....Pages 54-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-70 Supporting Creativity — Co-Experience in Mobile Multimedia Messaging....Pages 71-85 The Social Shaping of New Mobile Devices Among Italian Youth....Pages 86-103 Creative User-Centered Design Practices: Lessons from Game Cultures....Pages 104-116 Front Matter....Pages 117-119 Artistic Deviance and Innovation in Use....Pages 121-135 The Mobile Multimedia Phone and Artistic Expression: A Case Study of Moby Click....Pages 136-149 Front Matter....Pages 151-154 Questioning the “Rural” Adoption and Use of ICTs....Pages 155-167 Dealing with Dilemmas in Pre-Competitive ICT Development Projects: The Construction of “The Social” in Designing New Technologies....Pages 168-183 Test Scenarios and the Excluded User....Pages 184-199 Front Matter....Pages 201-202 The Construction of “Equal Agency” in the Development of Technology....Pages 203-217 Community-Technology Interfaces in Participatory Planning: Tool or Tokenism?....Pages 218-232 Conclusion....Pages 233-236