Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror: Baroquization, creolization, and cannibalism

New Media and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 617-636

  Bar, François ^a   Weber, Matthew S ^b   Pisani, Francis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Independent Scholar   (France)

Author keywords

Baroquization; cannibalism; creolization; technology appropriation; user driven innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962688614     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444816629474     Document Type: Article

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