Table of Content: New Media Technologies and User Empowerment (Volume VI) -- Yves Punie Introduction: New Media Technologies and User Empowerment. Is there a Happy Ending? 9 -- Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives on User Involvement and Empowerment -- Enid Mante-Meijer and Eugène Loos Innovation and the Role of Push and Pull 27 -- Valerie Frissen and Mijke Slot The Return of the Bricoleur: Redefining Media Business 45 -- Serge Proulx and Lorna Heaton Forms of User Contribution in Online Communities: Mechanisms of Mutual Recognition between Contributors 67 -- Part 2: User Approaches in ICT Design and Development -- Aphra Kerr, Stefano de Paoli and Christiano Storni Rethinking the Role of Users in ICT Design: Reflections for the Internet 85 -- James Stewart and Laurence Claeys Problems and Opportunities of Interdisciplinary Work Involving Users in Speculative Research for Innovation of Novel ICT Applications 101 -- Marinka Vangengck, Jo Pierson, Wendy Van den Broeck and Bram Lievens User-Driven Innovation in the Case of Three-Dimensional Urban Environments 123 -- Part 3: Differentiation in User Roles and Creativity -- Mijke Slot Web Roles Re-examined: Exploring User Roles in the Media Environment 143 -- Philip Ely, David Frohlich and Nicola Green Uncertainty, Upheavals and Upgrades: Digital-DIY during Life-change 163 -- Eva K. Törnquist In Search of Elks and Birds: Two Case Studies on the Creative Use of ICT in Sweden 181 -- Levente Szekely and Agnes Urban Over the Innovators and Early Adopters: Incentives and Obstacles of Internet Usage 195 -- Part 4: Case Studies on User Empowerment -- James Stewart, Richard Coyne, Penny Travlou, Mark Wright and Henrik Ekeus The Memory Space and the Conference: Exploring Future Uses of Web2.0 and Mobile Internet through Design Interventions 213.

Sanna Martilla, Kati Hyyppä and Kari-Hans Kommonen Co-Design of a Software Toolkit for Media Practices: P2P-Fusion Case Study 231 -- Ike Picone Mapping Users' Motivations and Thresholds for Casually "Produsing" News 251 -- Stijn Bannier The Musical Network 2.0 & 3.0 271 -- Enid Mante-Meijer, Jo Pierson and Eugène Loos Conclusion: Substantiating User Empowerment 285 -- Editors and contributors 309.