The Emergence of the Indigenous Field of Practice: Factors affecting Australian Indigenous Household ACT adoption
Date
2010
Authors
Radoll, Peter
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Association for Computing Machinery Inc (ACM)
Abstract
This paper examines the factors affecting adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Australian Indigenous households in a rural context. Drawing on the sociological notion of structure and agency it is argued that being engaged in external fields influences Indigenous household ICT adoption. In this paper, a conceptual schema is developed by drawing on Bourdieu's theory of habitus to explain the low uptake of ICTs in Indigenous households in Australia. The research illustrates the value of habitus to understand ICT adoption from a rural Australian Indigenous perspective. Case analysis suggests that this research has practical and policy implications.
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Keywords: Australia; Case analysis; Conceptual schemas; External fields; Habitus; Information and communication technologies; Policy implications; Interactive computer systems; Motivation; Human computer interaction Habitus; Household; ICT adoption; Indigenous; Motivations; Theory of practice
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Proceedings of 22nd Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction (OZCHI 2010)
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Conference paper