[Air-L] Primary text on affordances

[Yuwei Lin]

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
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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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