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People now engage with digital technologies for all kinds of activities and in all kinds of ways, including for both personal and professional purposes. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to reconceptualize the term \u201cuser.\u201d We discuss the various activities that people engage in with digital technologies, the myriad roles they play, and an essential shift in what the term \u201cuser\u201d means. Users might be active in shaping how a particular information system is used, they might be partners with an information system, they might be used by an information system, and they may spend sizable parts of their lives living essentially within information systems. 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