Comments on: “je l’ai bipé, il m’a raplé”: appropriation by naming

By: François

François — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:07:04 +0000

I just saw on textually.org that Reware sells Juice Bags that are "outfitted with a super flexible solar panel that can charge your handheld devices"

By: wide open spaces · Cultural and Technological Appropriation

wide open spaces · Cultural and Technological Appropriation — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:04:54 +0000

[...] practices within a 3-step technology cycle (adoption / appropriation / re-configuration). One very interesting post shows that an important way in which people appropriate technology is by naming what they do with [...]

By: Jonathan Miller

Jonathan Miller — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:54:14 +0000

Juicing is to do with current which is possibly wherein lies the pun.

By: François

François — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:49:21 +0000

Thanks Roxana! is this the same idea as “mansajitos misios”?
Jonathan: Interesting how each name emphasizes different aspects. Much has been written about what people call the instrument itself. Finnish teenagers carry a “kannyka” (which apparently means “extension of the hand”); in Japan, they use a “keitai” (which Mimi Ito translates as “something you carry with you” in her book, “Personal, Portable, Pedestrian)
Is “juicing” recharging the battery, or the pre-paid call credit?

By: Jonathan Miller

Jonathan Miller — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:40:46 +0000

I am also told that on Facebook users may ‘poke’ one another…

By: Jonathan Miller

Jonathan Miller — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:07:57 +0000

In England now many people ‘juice’ their mobiles. (portable in French, handi in German … call in American).

When it needs more, juice, obviously.

There are restaurants in London that will feed your phone while they feed you.

By: Roxana Barrantes

Roxana Barrantes — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:12:32 +0000

“Llamada misia” (roguhly translated as “cheap call”) in some parts of Peru.

“misio” understood as “poor” or “cheap”.

“EStoy misia” means “I am broke”.

“La cena estuvo misiasa” means a frugal meal or of bad quality.

Tambien se usa “llamada perdida”.