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The latest version of this paper is available as: Bar, F., Weber, M. S., & Pisani, F. (2016). Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror: Baroquization, creolization, and cannibalism. New Media & Society, 18(4), 617–636. http://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816629474 In recent years, mobile phone penetration has increased dramatically throughout Latin America. Rising penetration numbers tell an important story, but only part of the story. To fully grasp the social, economic and political impact of mobile telephony, we need to understand appropriation: the process through which mobile phone users go beyond mere adoption to make the technology their own and to embed it within their social, economic, and political practices. The appropriation process fundamentally is a negotiation about power and control over the configuration of the technology, its uses, and the distribution of its benefits. Within the Latin American context, today's negotiation surrounding mobile technological appropriation echoes earlier creative tensions about the appropriation of cultural objects, people, and ideas from abroad. This paper reviews existing theoretical approaches to the study of technology appropriation, re-considers them within the Latin American cultural context, and proposes a theoretical framework that can inform an in-depth study of the social, economic, and political impact of mobile phones in Latin America.
... Num cacifo digital, o sujeito usa a capacidade de armazenamento do objeto para, depois, partilhar com outras pessoas conteúdos de música e vídeo. Na canibalização, utilizam-se mesmo mecanismos de partilha fora da rede, tais como o bluetooth para comunicar entre objetos de materialidade híbrida (Bar et al., 2011, Kumar e Parikh, 2013. Podemos, assim, identificar também práticas que normalmente se inserem na esfera ilegal ou mesmo criminal. ...
June 2011
... Prepaid subscription is the most common payment option (Barrantes, 2007;Galperin & Mariscal, 2007;ITU, 2011). As airtime is a scarce, expensive resource for the poor, they sometimes use prepaid mobile phones only for receiving calls rather than making them (Bar, Pisani, & Seabra, 2011). Such users value this limited, asymmetric use because it makes them reachable and, therefore, present in networks (Castells, Fernández-Ardèvol, & Galperin, 2011). ...
January 2011
... In HCI, appropriation is a relational accomplishment that involves unexpected adaptations or modifications of artifacts performed by users in concert with others and with things [12,35,40,115,125,165]. A substantial amount of literature in HCI and design research [35,40,74,93,99,115], as in science and technology studies (STS) and media studies [3,95,128,146,172], emphasizes the creative practices of [individual] users, how they encounter and how they 'domesticate' technology for material and symbolic purposes. ...
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