Understanding the appropriation of CSCW-Tools is key to their successful implementation. This paper explores the social and organizational appropriation of the Cuparla CSCW-environment in the Stuttgart city council. The city council work requires a CSCW design that is based on the notion of digital material in separated work contexts. Within these contexts, the appropriation of technology depen...

In today’s media-rich world, youths are not merely consumers, but also active creators of information. Digital tools allow authors to more easily remix and copy previous works. These new media practices have brought issues of appropriation, copyright, privacy, information behavior, and information literacy to the forefront. In this paper, we present a case study of a hybrid online and offline c...

The growth in the application of information technology to learning/training underscores the need to understand the impact of these technologies. This paper reports the results of a multi-period quasiexperiment focusing on two e-learning methods: contemporary web-based and video-based training methods. Drawing on the two foundational disciplines of Information Systems and Education, this study ...

Research in recent years has focused on examining the acceptance as well as the appropriation of technologies amongst older adults, especially in how technologies alleviate issues of functional declines, loneliness, and financial difficulties brought about by ageing. Yet such studies have often overlooked meaningful appropriation or disappropriation of technologies amongst older adults. By draw...

The growth in the application of information technology to learning/training underscores the need to understand the impact of these technologies. This paper reports the results of a multi-period quasiexperiment focusing on two e-learning methods: elementK and video-based method. Drawing on the two foundational disciplines of Information Systems and Education, this study presents a theoretical m...

Communities present considerable challenges for the design and application of supportive information technology (IT), especially in looselyintegrated and informal contexts, as it is often the case of Communities of Practice (CoP). An approach that actively supports user communities in the process of IT appropriation can help alleviate the impossibility of their members to rely on continuous pro...

Abstract Research on carbon inequalities shows that some countries are overshooting their fair share of the remaining budget and hold disproportionate responsibility for climate breakdown. Scholars argue owe compensation or reparations to undershooting atmospheric appropriation climate-related damages. Here we develop a procedure quantify level owed in ‘net zero’ scenario where all decarbonize ...