The HDTV Camcorder and the March to Marketplace Reality

Thorpe, Laurence J.; Nagumo, Fumio; Ike, Kazuo

doi:10.5594/j04486

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Imperfect Use? ICT Provisions and Human Decisions: An Introduction to the Special Issue on ICT Adoption and User Choices

Herold¹

2010

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Abstract:ICTs have increasingly become an integral part of society, enhancing, changing, supporting, and complicating human lives. The disregard of technology inventors and designers for the users of ICTs has resulted in disjunctures between ICTs and users, though, as users have refused to become mere agents of the designers. Individual users have adopted their own uses of ICTs based on the complex webs of relations and This is the Pre-Published Version.2 meanings in which they function as social actors. Instead of adjusting these webs to new ICTs, they have fit the ICTs into their pre-existing social webs, often resulting in imaginative and creative uses for new technologies, not envisaged by the original designers. This article argues that human users should be given precedence over ICTs, and that studies should focus less on creative uses of 'universal' technologies, and more on an appropriate design of ICTs that can be integrated into human lives.

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