ICT, Community Memory and Technological Appropriation

The modal nature of ICT: challenging the historical interpretation of the social understanding and appropriation of ICT

This paper proposes a sociological model for understanding the social appropriation of information and communications technology (ICT). It is argued that the relationship between a media form and the society in which it is deployed is of key import in understanding how media is used. An account is given of the way in which the power of ICT to affect society has been understood. It is argued tha...

Perceptions of ICT use in rural Brazil: Factors that impact appropriation among marginalized communities

A Social Ecological Model of ICT Cooption: Surveillance Creep in the Information Age

A model for ICT cooption is introduced using the example of ’surveillance creep’ which is the phenomenon of increasing dataveillance as the result of the introduction of seemingly benign, useful and convenient technological artefacts. The model identifies and discusses five main components of ICT artefact development and deployment: design, properties, affordances, appropriation and agent inter...

Social affordances and Technological Intersubjectivity in HCI

In this theoretically oriented paper, we present an exposition of the phenomena of technological intersubjectivity that emerges in computer supported social interactional situations under two major themes. The first theme re-conceptualizes social interaction supported by various information and communication technologies (ICT) as appropriation of social affordances. The second theme explicates ...

The impact of technological innovation capabilities on competitive performance of Iranian ICT firms

Recently many researches have studied technological innovation capabilities (TICs) and their impacts on firm’s competitive performance in the field of manufacturing industries. This paper pursued Yam et al. (2004) framework to study the relevance of TICs and firm's competitive performance in a mainly-service-based industry in Iran (ICT). Empirical data were collected through a questionnaire from...