Appropriating Technology

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How We Make Digital Tools Our Own

Pierre Tchounikine

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MIT Press
18 November 2025

Science: general issues

How we use digital technologies and make them our own.

How we use digital technologies and make them our own.

Appropriation 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 Appropriating Technology, 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.

He 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.

By: Pierre Tchounikine
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262553872
ISBN 10: 0262553872
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 18 November 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pierre Tchounikine is Professor of Computer Science at the University Grenoble Alpes, France. He has conducted research and teaching at the intersection of computer science and social sciences for over 30 years.

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Appropriating Technology

How We Make Digital Tools Our Own

Pierre Tchounikine

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