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Everyday appropriations of information technology: A study of creative uses of digital cameras

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  • Antti Salovaara
  • Sacha Helfenstein
  • Antti Oulasvirta

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Repurposive appropriation is a creative everyday act in which a user invents a novel use for information technology (IT) and adopts it. This study is the first to address its prevalence and predictability in the consumer IT context. In all, 2,379 respondents filled in an online questionnaire on creative uses of digital cameras, such as using them as scanners, periscopes, and storage media. The data reveal that such creative uses are adopted by about half of the users, on average, across different demographic backgrounds. Discovery of a creative use on one's own is slightly more common than is learning it from others. Most users discover the creative uses either completely on their own or wholly through learning from others. Our regression model explains 34% of the variance in adoption of invented uses, with technology cognizance orientation, gender, exploration orientation, use frequency, and use tenure as the strongest predictors. These findings have implications for both design and marketing.

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  • Antti Salovaara & Sacha Helfenstein & Antti Oulasvirta, 2011. "Everyday appropriations of information technology: A study of creative uses of digital cameras," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 62(12), pages 2347-2363, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:62:y:2011:i:12:p:2347-2363
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.21643
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    1. Dupont, Laurent & Hubert, Julien & Guidat, Claudine & Camargo, Mauricio, 2019. "Understanding user representations, a new development path for supporting Smart City policy: Evaluation of the electric car use in Lorraine Region," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 142(C), pages 333-346.
    2. Emanuele Bardone & Ilya Shmorgun, 2013. "Ecologies of creativity: smartphones as a case in point," Mind & Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences, Springer;Fondazione Rosselli, vol. 12(1), pages 125-135, June.

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