Everyday Innovators: Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs - Computer Supported Cooperative Work Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005 edition

Description for Sales People: Brings together a selection of papers that explore the active role of people, collectively and individually, in shaping the use of information and communication technologies in an attempt to investigate how we should conceptualise it and understand its forms and limitations. Focuses on some of the specific issues around acquiring and using that knowledge of users as well as their input, how users can go beyond designer intentions, but also the limits to which they do so. Table of Contents: Frameworks: The Social, Unpredictable, and Innovatory Use of ICTs.- Beyond User-Centric Models of Product Creation.- Following the Emergence of Unpredictable Uses? New Stakes and Tasks for a Social Scientific Understanding of Ict Uses.- The Innovatory Use of ICTs.- Empirical Studies: Users as Innovators and Critics.- Supporting Creativity Co-Experience in Mobile Multimedia Messaging.- The Social Shaping of New Mobile Devices Among Italian Youth.- Creative User-Centered Design Practices: Lessons from Game Cultures.- Innovation and Artistic Users.- Artistic Deviance and Innovation in Use.- The Mobile Multimedia Phone and Artistic Expression: A Case Study of Moby Click.- Problems of Researching and Involving Users in Design.- Questioning the Rural Adoption and Use of ICTs.- Dealing with Dilemmas in Pre-Competitive ICT Development Projects: The Construction of The Social in Designing New Technologies.- Test Scenarios and the Excluded User.- The Politics of User Involvement in Programes of Innovation.- The Construction of Equal Agency in the Development of Technology.- Community-Technology Interfaces in Participatory Planning: Tool or Tokenism?.- Conclusion."

Contributor Bio:  Haddon, Leslie Nicola Green is Senior Lecturer in New Media and New Technologies in the Dept of Sociology, University of Surrey.