TY - GEN
T1 - "Hey, i know what this is!"
T2 - 19th ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP 2016
AU - Kow, Yong Ming
AU - Shanghai, Xianghua Ding
PY - 2016/11/13
Y1 - 2016/11/13
N2 - User appropriation can be immensely helpful to bootstrap emerging technologies; but how do new and lesser known technologies attract these earliest adopters? This paper investigates user appropriation of emerging computing technologies, by focusing on Bitcoin, a digital monetary system supported by a peer-to-peer network of computing devices. We conducted in-depth interviews with sixteen Bitcoin community participants in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Baltimore. We describe user appropriation in this case of Bitcoin as a sociocultural journey-from encounter, research and learning, to socialization. We contribute the concept of cultural affinities, including conceptual, contextual and social dimensions, as important mediators leading to early-stage user appropriation. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).
AB - User appropriation can be immensely helpful to bootstrap emerging technologies; but how do new and lesser known technologies attract these earliest adopters? This paper investigates user appropriation of emerging computing technologies, by focusing on Bitcoin, a digital monetary system supported by a peer-to-peer network of computing devices. We conducted in-depth interviews with sixteen Bitcoin community participants in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Baltimore. We describe user appropriation in this case of Bitcoin as a sociocultural journey-from encounter, research and learning, to socialization. We contribute the concept of cultural affinities, including conceptual, contextual and social dimensions, as important mediators leading to early-stage user appropriation. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).
KW - Appropriation
KW - Bitcoin
KW - Sociocultural
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U2 - 10.1145/2957276.2957279
DO - 10.1145/2957276.2957279
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9781450342766
VL - 13-16-November-2016
SP - 213
EP - 221
BT - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 13 November 2016 through 16 November 2016
ER -