The sociologist Ian Hutchby has "developed an approach to the social dimensions of communications technologies by combining empirical work in CA with a development of the concept of affordances, and applying it to multiple modes of communication including telephones, computer screens, video links, text-based expert help systems and real-time internet message exchange." (see http://www.le.ac.uk/so/staff/iph2.html) IMHO these two papers are quite seminal: Hutchby, I. (2001) 'Technologies, Texts and Affordances', Sociology, 35(2), pp. 441-456. Hutchby, I. (2003) 'Affordances and the Analysis of Technologically Mediated Interaction', Sociology, 37(3), pp. 581-589. Best wishes, Yuwei -- http://www.ylin.org On 25 Jul 2010, at 03:06, Denise N. Rall wrote:
Dear AIR-ERS -
I have some colleagues here who have recently become interested in the concept of affordances (they are working in the field of visual arts).
I know the term comes from engineering but if anyone has the primary reference at their fingertips it would be much appreciated.
Cheers, Denise
(writing from the island of Bali where the the celebrations of the Kite Festival has filled the skies each afternoon with amazing kites)
Denise N. Rall, PhD. Special Projects, Faculty of Arts & Science Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW AUSTRALIA Mobile +(61)(0)438 233344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ Popular Culture Association of Australia & Zealand POPCANNZ Conf. Auckland, New Zealand July 2011
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