| Conferences
and presentations |
|
In the making, On the move: Global Perspectives on Technology
Appropriation (2017 4S panel: Martin Andrés Perez Comisso;
Luis Lourenço Soares; Andhra Pradesh Padma Chirumamilla; Kuo-Hui
Chang; Nikhil Agarwal; Robin Williams; Ole Waever; Miguel Muñoz;
Vincent Duclos) |
| 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 |
| Say It
Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud: African Americans, American
Artifactual Culture, and Black Vernacular Technological Creativity
(R Fouche) |
| Generative
Technologies from Africa |
| Appropriating
Technology: social justice and human development |
| Creative
insubordination in ethnomodeling |
| Conceptualising
Resourcefulness as a Dispersed Practice (Lenneke Kuijer, Iohanna
Nicenboim, Elisa Giaccardi) |
| 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)
|
| 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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