Companion slides to an earlier version of: Bar, F., Weber, M. S., & Pisani, F. (2016). Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror: Baroquization, creolization, and cannibalism. New Media & Society, 18(4), 617–636. http://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816629474

1. Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
François Bar
Francis Pisani
Matthew Weber
slides: http://slideshare.net/arnic

2. Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
0. inspiration
1. appropriation
2. innovation model
3. research questions
4. current projects

3. Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism

4. Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
1556

5. Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
1556 1928

6. Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
“Só me interessa o
que não é meu. Lei
do homem. Lei do
antropófago”
1556 1928

7. Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
1556 1928 1960s

8. Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
1556 1928 1960s 2003

10. Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
“la créolisation, c'est le métissage avec une valeur
ajoutée qui est l'imprévisibilité”
Edouard Glissant, Introduction à une poétique du divers (1996)

11. Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism

12. Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
photos:
Bernardo Bolaños

13. photos: caracoleserrantesbolivia (flickr)

14. “Among the angels and the vines of the
façade of San Lorenzo, an Indian
princess appears, and all the symbols of
the defeated Incan culture are given a
new lease on life. The Indian half-moon
disturbs the traditional serenity of the
Corinthian vine. American jungle leaves
and Mediterranean clover intertwine. The
sirens of Ulysses play the Peruvian
guitar. And the flora, the fauna, the
music, and even the sun of the ancient
Indian world are forcefully asserted.
There shall be no European culture in the
New World unless all of these, our native
symbols, are admitted on an equal
footing.”
Carlos Fuentes (1999) The Buried Mirror
- Reflections on Spain and the New
World,

15. -1-
three appropriation modes:
baroquization / creolization / cannibalism

16. Appropriation modes: baroquization
photos: samsooma (flickr)

17. Appropriation modes: baroquization
photos: superlocal (flickr)

18. Appropriation modes: baroquization

19. Appropriation modes: baroquization

20. Appropriation modes: creolization
photos: Araba Sey, Ruud Elmendorp

21. Appropriation modes: creolization

22. Appropriation modes: creolization
Horse-phone:
“Like earlier horse-phones, it had a cord. Wire stored on a 5-mile reel
played out as a scout rode. The improved model let a rider make calls
without having to first dismount and then drive a spike into the ground to
complete the electrical connection. Instead, the grounding wire was
attached to the horse’s skin. The mild electrical current would pass through
its body to its hoofs, one of which was almost always touching the ground.”
(Popular Mechanics, Sep. 1907)

23. Appropriation modes: creolization
photo/graphic: Mike Ousmegine

24. Appropriation modes: creolization
photo: Jan Chipchase photo: timonoko (flickr)

25. Appropriation modes: creolization
Photo: Araba Sey Photo: Jan Chipchase

26. Appropriation modes: creolization

27. Appropriation modes: cannibalism
Photo: Kathleen Diga

28. Appropriation modes: cannibalism
Photo: Kathleen Diga

29. Appropriation modes: cannibalism
Photo: Araba Sey

30. Appropriation modes: cannibalism
source: http://www.vavolo.com/productdetails.asp,ProductID,2400,,.htm

31. Appropriation modes: cannibalism

32. Appropriation modes: cannibalism

33. -2-
appropriation
within the
technology cycle

34. 1. roll-out

35. 1. roll-out
2. appropriate

36. 1. roll-out
2. appropriate
3. re-claim

37. 1. roll-out
2. appropriate
3. re-claim

38. m-banking

39. m-banking
1. roll-out
Photos: Jan Chipchase

40. 1. roll-out
2. appropriate
sente
Photos: Jan Chipchase
m-banking

41. m-banking
1. roll-out
2. appropriate
3. re-claim
Photos: Jan Chipchase
sente

42. m-banking
1. roll-out
3. re-claim
?

43. 1. roll-out
2. appropriate
3. re-claim

44. three reclamation modes:
co-opt / adapt / block

45. three reclamation modes:
co-opt / adapt / block
echo:
baroquize / creolize / cannibalize

46. suppliers
roll-out technology
users
appropriate
suppliers
re-claim
users adopt
reject
users baroquize
creolize
cannibalize
suppliers co-opt
adapt
block

47. 1. roll-out
2. appropriate
3. re-claim
Iterative
Cumulative
End-user driven
Structured learning
Embedded knowledge
Path-dependent

48. -3-
research questions?

49. 1. adopt
2. appropriate
3. re-claim
what is open?
?

50. 1. adopt
2. appropriate
3. re-claim
what remains open?
?

51. suppliers
roll-out technology
users
appropriate
suppliers
re-claim
users adopt
reject
users baroquize
creolize
cannibalize
suppliers co-opt
adapt
block

52. suppliers
roll-out technology
users
appropriate
suppliers
re-claim
users adopt
reject
users baroquize
creolize
cannibalize
suppliers co-opt
adapt
block

53. suppliers
roll-out technology
users
appropriate
suppliers
re-claim
users adopt
reject
users baroquize
creolize
cannibalize
suppliers co-opt
adapt
block
who are the “users”?
what motivates them?
what resources can they draw upon?
how do they go about it?
can they get help from others?
(“appropriation-for-hire”)

54. http://abaporu.net