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Finquelievich Susana; Salgado Mariana

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Launching our Call for papers on the role of users in socio-technical innovation has been similar to throwing a bottle with a message into the sea. Who would find it, and how many researchers, in the vast shores of social studies on Information Society, would answer it? What would be the “catch”, in terms of research results, of understanding about the routes in which individuals and groups appropriate and turn information and communication technology useful for their own specific practices? The Call for Papers itself turned into a kind of practical research on how users are relevant regarding socio-technical innovation. A number of colleagues have answered this Call, proving the deep interest which exists in the Community Informatics world about the analysis of the processes through which specialists observe the innovations carried on by communities or individuals and integrate them into new products. In the last decades studies and experience have shown that users matter in regards to technological innovation. Books such as "The Co-Construction of Users and Technology[1]” analyse the creative capacity of users to shape technology in all phases, from design to implementation. Lately, citizen′s labs are also trying to integrate individuals and communities to technological innovation. They try to combine the old “collaboratory” concept launched in the 1990s in academic environments, or virtual laboratories, where scientists collaborate though networking, with the concept of citizens′ networks, in which citizens collaborate in a digital environment for various uses, and that have become freshly popular through social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. Individuals, groups and community have actively participated in the process of technological innovation and are increasingly aware of their capacity for making and changing technologies. Internet - based social networks, open source software, content creation, redesign by use, citizens ′participation in living labs, are just a few examples of people actively enlarging the original uses of information and communication technologies (ICT). The goal of this special issue is to examine, using a variety of multidisciplinary approaches, the mutual interaction between ICT and users. The authors have reflected on the hypothesis that any understanding of users must take into consideration the multiplicity of roles they play, and that the conventional distinction between users and producers is largely formal and artificial. Contributing knowledge about the process in which individuals and communities appropriate and makes information and communication technology functional for their own specific purposes is the goal of this special issue of JOCI. The objective is to advance on the subject of how communities utilize technology, meanwhile creating innovative uses. The papers published in this issue consider how users consume, modify, domesticate, design, reconfigure, and resist technological development, as well as in which ways users are changed by ICT. The papers may be classified into three main categories: Social and Technological Networks, Technological and organizational tools for innovation, Living labs experiences. Some of the key issues that are reflected upon are: - Case studies about technology appropriation and modification of ICT changes by communities. - Alternative-use hunters: analysis of the processes through which experts perceive the changes by communities or individuals and incorporate them into the goods or services. - The follow-up and analysis of the framework of technological relationships between human and non-human agents [1] [1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10755.

机译：发起关于用户在社会技术创新中的作用的征集活动类似于将一瓶装有信息的瓶子扔入海中。谁能找到它，以及在信息社会的广泛社会研究中有多少研究人员会回答呢？什么是“抓”，在研究成果方面，理解关于其个人和群体适当，将信息和通信技术可用于自己的具体做法的路线？论文征集本身变成了一种关于用户如何与社会技术创新相关的实践研究。许多同事回答了这一呼吁，证明了社区信息学界对分析过程的深切兴趣，通过该过程专家可以观察社区或个人进行的创新并将其集成到新产品中。在过去的几十年中，研究和经验表明，用户对技术创新至关重要。诸如“用户与技术的共同构建[1]”之类的书分析了用户从设计到实施的各个阶段塑造技术的创造能力，最近，市民实验室也在尝试将个人和社区融入技术。他们尝试将1990年代在学术环境或虚拟实验室中发起的古老“合作”概念与科学家通过网络进行协作的虚拟实验室或公民网络的概念相结合，公民网络是公民在数字环境中进行各种用途的协作，基于互联网的社交网络，开放源代码的个人，团体和社区已经积极参与了技术创新过程，并且越来越意识到其制造和更改技术的能力。软件，内容创建，通过使用进行重新设计，公民参与生活实验室，这些只是pe的一些示例ople积极扩大信息和通信技术（ICT）的原始用途。本期特刊的目的是使用多种跨学科方法研究ICT与用户之间的相互影响。作者对以下假设进行了反思：对用户的任何理解都必须考虑到他们扮演的角色的多样性，并且用户与生产者之间的常规区别在很大程度上是形式化的和人为的。 JOCI特刊的目的是提供有关个人和社区适应过程以及使信息和通信技术用于其特定目的的功能的知识。目的是推进社区如何利用技术的主题，同时创造创新的用途。本期发表的论文考虑了用户如何消费，修改，驯化，设计，重新配置和抵制技术发展，以及通过ICT改变用户的方式。这些论文可以分为三大类：社会和技术网络，用于创新的技术和组织工具，生活实验室的经验。反映出的一些关键问题是：-关于技术专有性和社区对ICT进行更改的案例研究。 -替代用途猎人：分析过程，专家可以通过这些过程来感知社区或个人的变化，并将其纳入商品或服务。 -对人类和非人类代理人之间的技术关系框架的跟踪和分析[1] [1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10755。

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