| Conferences
and presentations |
| Cosmopolitan Appropriation: White Cataracts and the Innovative User as Producer (2011 4S talk, Logan D. A. Williams) |
When Self-organization Meets Appropriation: Collective Technological Flexibility and Social Power (2011 4S talk, Ron Eglash) |
Cultural
Borrowings: A Study Day on Appropriation, Reworking and Transformation
(Panel, University of Nottingham , UK
Wednesday March 19th, 2008) |
Problematizing
Technological “Appropriation” (Panel, Society
for Social Studies of Science
Annual Meeting, Montreal Canada, October 2007) |
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| Books, Essays and Websites |
| Interrogating Mobiles: A story of Nigerian appropriation of the Mobile Phone (PhD thesis, Tolu Odumosu)
|
African Cyber-Crime (Louis Chude-Sokei) |
| DIY (wikipedia entry) |
| Shanzhai: Chinese knock-off artifacts and activities |
| Pirate Party International: political parties that oppose IP regulation and promote free information exchange |
| São
Paulo motoboy ethnographers: Re-making politics (François Bar, Francis
Pisani and Matthew Weber) |
| Appropriating
the Internet for Social Change: Towards the Strategic Use of Networked Technologies
by Transnational Civil Society Organizations (SSRC) |
| Appropriating
Technology in Teacher Education (Melissa Poole) |
| Appropriating
Technology in Melanesia (Edward Smith) |
| User
Innnovation (MIT website) |
| Democratizing
Innovation (Book by Eric Von Hippel) |
| Appropriating
handheld computers for education in rural Africa (Jenny Leach et al) |
| Conceptualizing
Technology Policies for Networked Urban Spaces in the Third World (Govind
Gopakumar) |
|
What's in a name? Exploring the connections between abstraction and appropriation
(Jones M.C. & Twidale, M.B.) |
| "Let
them use emacs": the interaction of simplicity and appropriation (Twidale,
M.B. & Jones M.C.) |
| Design
for Unintended Use (Erik Stolterman) |
| Everyday
Innovators: Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs (Leslie Haddon
and others) |
| The
Survival of the Fitter: Lives of Some African Engineers (John Powell) |
| Gillespie,
Tarleton. "Designed to ‘Effectively Frustrate’: Copyright,
Technology, and the Agency of Users" |
| What
Else Is New?How uses, not innovations, drive human technology.(Steven Shapin)
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| Examples |
| Garrett
Yazzie, an eighth grader from the Navajo Nation, wins award for his solar
heater created from a 1967 Pontiac radiator |
| Hand-cranked
record (from film "tailenders") |
| Afrigadget:
Solving everyday problems with African ingenuity |
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