Routledge - Understanding Creative Users of ICTs Book

Explore the gap between technology design and real-world application with Understanding Creative Users of ICTs: Users as Social Actors by Routledge. This book examines the disconnect between what developers intend and how people actually use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Rather than acting as simple agents for designers, individual users often adapt new technologies to fit their existing social lives and meanings. This study looks at how people integrate ICTs into their pre-existing social webs, leading to imaginative and creative uses that original designers never planned. By viewing users as social actors, this work provides a deep look at how technology is reshaped by the complex relations and social contexts of the people using it every day.