The Affordances of Place: Digital Agency and the Lived Spaces of Information
Affordances provide a useful frame for understanding how users interact with devices, but applications of the term to digital devices must take into account that human agents operate within a material environment that is distinct from the digital environment in which these devices operate. A more r...
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Simon Dawes, Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines (CHCSC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)
2019-08-01
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Affordances provide a useful frame for understanding how users interact with devices, but applications of the term to digital devices must take into account that human agents operate within a material environment that is distinct from the digital environment in which these devices operate. A more restrictive approach to affordances would focus on the agency of digital devices distinct from the agency of human users. Location-aware mobile devices provide a particularly compelling example of the complex interplay of agents and agencies, and how “augmented affordances†give rise to a lived space of information for human users.
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| spelling | doaj-art-323584e4489840b79e326d04c1b5fcf72025-08-20T03:25:04ZengSimon Dawes, Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines (CHCSC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)Media Theory2557-826X2019-08-013110.70064/mt.v3i1.959The Affordances of Place: Digital Agency and the Lived Spaces of InformationMark Nunes Affordances provide a useful frame for understanding how users interact with devices, but applications of the term to digital devices must take into account that human agents operate within a material environment that is distinct from the digital environment in which these devices operate. A more restrictive approach to affordances would focus on the agency of digital devices distinct from the agency of human users. Location-aware mobile devices provide a particularly compelling example of the complex interplay of agents and agencies, and how “augmented affordances†give rise to a lived space of information for human users. https://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/959actor-network theoryaffordancesdigital agentsmobile computingsense of placesmartphones |
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| title | The Affordances of Place: Digital Agency and the Lived Spaces of Information |
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