From implementation to design: tailoring and the emergence of systematization in CSCW
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Layers of Silence, Arenas of Voice: The Ecology ofVisible and Invisible Work
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Anchored mobilities: mobile technology and transnational migration
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A hybrid cultural ecology: world of warcraft in China
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Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China
Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
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Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software
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Creative Industries after the First Decade of Debate
The Information Society - Creative Industries and Urban Development
Postcolonial computing: a lens on design and development
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Characterizing global participation in an enterprise SNS
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Leisure food: derive social and cultural entertainment through physical interaction with food
ICEC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Entertainment Computing
Reflections on 25 Years of Ethnography in CSCW
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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The diverse ways in which technologies are modified and appropriated into local contexts are an important theme in CSCW research. Today, translocal processes such as the formation of international corporations and the movement of people and ideas across nation states increasingly shape these local contexts of technology use and design. We draw from prior work on appropriation in CSCW and meld it with work from transnational studies to illustrate appropriation as a cultural phenomenon and as it unfolds in relation to emerging translocal processes. We ground our explorations in findings from ethnographic research on collaborations and exchange among IT professionals in urban China. This work makes two main contributions. First, it expands CSCW's focus on socio-technical systems by taking seriously socio-political and socio-economic processes. Second, it contributes to debates on cross-cultural and global technological development by employing transnational imagination as an analytical tool.