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Discover how technology truly shapes our actions and social landscape.
How Artifacts Afford
The Power and Politics of Everyday Things
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208 pages
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8 April 2025
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Summary
A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective.
Technological affordances mediate between the features of a technology and the outcomes of engagement with that technology. The concept of affordances, which migrated from psychology to design with Donald Norman’s influential 1988 book, The Design of Everyday Things, offers a useful analytical tool in technology studies-but, Jenny …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262554107 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262554100 |
| Author: | Jenny L. Davis |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 8 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 202mm x 150mm |
| Series: | Design Thinking, Design Theory |
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About The Author
Jenny L. Davis
Jenny L. Davis is a sociologist at the Australian National University.
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