{"product_id":"appropriating-technology-pierre-tchounikine-9780262553872","title":"Appropriating Technology: How We Make Digital Tools Our Own","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow we use digital technologies and make them our own.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAppropriation is the process by which we turn digital technologies into instruments for our own use. Since we do not use technologies but rather our appropriations of them, understanding why and how these appropriations develop is important and useful for both users and for designers. However, appropriation is an underexplored aspect of human-computer interaction. In \u003ci\u003eAppropriating Technology\u003c\/i\u003e, Pierre Tchounikine explains that appropriation is constitutive of how we actually use things in practice and is different in nature from the initial process of learning to use a technology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe provides an analysis of the phenomena at play and explains how the way we develop (we evolve, we learn) is key, how our human high-level needs also play an important (though often unconscious) role, how the current adaptation means offered by most technologies give us some degree of freedom to align technologies to our needs and desires (although they are far from fully satisfactory), and how these design aspects may be improved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pierre Tchounikine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262553872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262553872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Pierre Tchounikine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47202112930047,"sku":"9780262553872","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9ef7b696-18b0-4a1c-a20f-b0c3ddc89da4.jpg?v=1756819677","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/appropriating-technology-pierre-tchounikine-9780262553872","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}