Abstract

SANDOVAL, Luis Ricardo  and  CABELLO, Roxana. Limits to domestication: mandatory uses, reluctance and austerity in the appropriation of mobile telephony. Dixit [online]. 2019, n.31, pp.82-99.  Epub Dec 01, 2019. ISSN 1688-3497.  https://doi.org/10.22235/d.vi31.1849.

Socio-cultural approaches to the study of technology appropriation processes highlight the possibility that a technological device will not always be used in the planned ways. Based on a set of in-depth interviews with adult mobile phone users, this article analyzes the limits and resistances faced by some aspects of its use, related to three issues: the perception that certain uses are not of free choice but are explained by external pressures, the refusal to allocate amounts that are considered unjustified for the acquisition of the most sophisticated terminals and criticism of forms of use that are considered excessive. Consequently, these findings underline that the process of domestication of a technology, in this case mobile telephony, is never linear.

Keywords : domestication; appropriation of technologies; mobile communication; interactive technologies..

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