Interesting reading of Pasta&Vinegar which quotes an academic paper* dividing the widespread of (unconscious?) hacking in three categories:
Baroque, creolization, cannibalism and technology adoption
“Baroque layering: The most basic way in which users can appropriate a technology is for them to use the personalization features that are provided to them with that intent in mind. As technical objects, mobile phones come with many such affordances. These include for example the ability to change the ringtone, screen wallpaper, upload one’s phonebook, set up short-cuts for most-often called numbers, download games, and upload one’s music, photo, or video collection.
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Creolization represents a deeper transformation, a more profound form of appropriation. It refers to practices where the user recombines or reprograms elements of the technology. In this appropriation mode, by contrast with baroque layering, users are more deeply involved in changing the technology. They now explore ways to adapt the technology beyond the options that have been designed by the phone makers and service providers.
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Cannibalism: This third form of appropriation is the most extreme in the sense that it corresponds to practices where the user chooses to engage in direct conflict with the suppliers of the technology (or at least with the power relation as embodied in the technology.) Cannibalism includes modifications of the device that place the user in direct opposition with the providers’ business model, destruction of the device.“”
(via Pasta&Vinegar.)
* the academic “Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror: baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism” by Bar, Pisani and Weber can be found here.
November 14, 2008
Categories: technology
Tags: custom, design, functionality, hacking
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R-Echos: how to create embroidery designs using images on your computer screen.
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R-Echos: Speaking at the first TED Conference in 1984, Nicholas Negroponte waxes prophetic on the converging fields of technology, entertainment and design.
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R-Echos: for some time, most Walker websites have been without an important branding element: a favicon.
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R-Echos: It is a simple task to control small electrical signals which are carried by the wires attached to the printer port of IBM-compatible computers.
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R-Echos: 5 years ago, the concept of working from any location seemed alien to most employers, but in todays rapidly connected world, it’s more common to find cutting edge researchers working without the constraints of 9-5 and the office life
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R-Echos: a great visualization of what the candidates are talking about
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R-Echos: An information visualization conference, the See Conference, is being held in Wiesbaden, Germany, on April 19th
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R-Echos: Issue Magazine, another new web-based publication looking at the changing world of publishing and design
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R-Echos Custom turntables: ”
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Categories: bookmark
Tags: analysis, anayltics, animation, architecture, archive, author, blog, blogging, bones, boxes, branding, candidates, chaumont, clothes, color, conference, container, custom, dead, design, details, display, diy, drawing, economy, embroidery, etd, fab, favico, flux, furniture, future, generative, graphicdesign, GUI, identity, installation, interraction, magazine, methodology, mobility, motion, museum, pipe, player, poster, printer, process, publishing, scienefiction, screen, sculpture, signage, stream, structure, tangible, technology, topic, touch, typography, us, visualisation, vynil, water, webdesign, website, writer, writing, zeitgeist
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February 04, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, code, color, comment, custom, degree, design, desktop, discussion, display, explosion, film, hack, hardware, howto, hue, ideas, inspiration, internet, lifehack, nature, organization, origami, paper, photoshop, plugin, process, productivity, schema, screen, sculpture, slow_motion, society, statistics, tangible, technology, textuality, traffic, tutorial, typography, visualisation, webdesign, wordpress
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