Hey, I Know What This is!": Cultural Affinities and Early Stage Appropriation of the Emerging Bitcoin Technology"

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dc.contributor.authorKow, Yong Ming
dc.contributor.authorDing, Xianghua
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-17T22:48:36Z
dc.date.available2023-03-17T22:48:36Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractUser appropriation can be immensely helpful to bootstrap emerging technologies; but how do new and lesser known technologies attract these earliest adopters? This paper investigates user appropriation of emerging computing technologies, by focusing on Bitcoin, a digital monetary system supported by a peer-to-peer network of computing devices. We conducted in-depth interviews with sixteen Bitcoin community participants in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Baltimore. We describe user appropriation in this case of Bitcoin as a sociocultural journey-from encounter, research and learning, to socialization. We contribute the concept of cultural affinities, including conceptual, contextual and social dimensions, as important mediators leading to early-stage user appropriation.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/2957276.2957279
dc.identifier.urihttps://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/4463
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work
dc.subjectbitcoin
dc.subjectappropriation
dc.subjectsociocultural
dc.titleHey, I Know What This is!": Cultural Affinities and Early Stage Appropriation of the Emerging Bitcoin Technology"en
dc.typeText/Conference Paper
gi.citation.startPage213–221
gi.conference.locationSanibel Island, Florida, USA

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