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How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things

How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things


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Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Series Foreword ix Acknowledgments xvii Chapter 1: Introduction 1 A Trolley Problem of a Particular Sort 1 Affordances 6 Operationalizing Affordances: The Mechanisms and Conditions Framework 11 How Afforances Matter 14 Situating the Text 15 Outline of the Book 21 Chapter 2: A Brief History of Affordances 25 Origins in Ecological Psychology 27 Afforances Spread 29 Objects, Subjects, and Contexts 34 Sustained Critiques 39 Pathways Forward 41 Chapter 3: Politics and Power 45 The Medium Is the Message: McLuhan on Technologies as Objects of Study 47 Actor-Network Theory: Overcoming Technological Determinism 50 The Politics of Artifacts 53 Technology as Materialized Action: Technological Efficacy and Human Agency 56 Chapter Summary 60 Chapter 4: Mechanisms of Affordance 63 Requests and Demands 66 Encourage, Discourage, and Refuse 71 Allow 80 Chapter Summary 83 Chapter 5: Conditions of Affordance 87 Perception 91 Dexterity 94 Cultural and Institutional Legitimacy 96 Chapter Summary 100 Chapter 6: Affordances in Practice 105 Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis 108 The Walkthrough Method and App Feature Analysis 110 Values Reflection 116 Adversarial Design 118 Chapter Summary 121 Chapter 7: Conclusion 123 Big Question 1: How Do We Identify and Equalize Digital Inequalities? 128 Big Question 2: How Do Social Media Affect Sociality and Psychological Well-being? 129 Big Question 3: How Do Information Economies Affect Political Life? 130 Big Question 4: How Will Driverless Cars Affect Urban Infrastructures? 130 Big Question 5: How Do Medical Technologies Afford Embodied Relations to Health? 131 Moving Forward 132 Notes 135 Bibliography 161 Index 181

About the Author :
Jenny L. Davis is a sociologist at the Australian National University.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780262554107
  • Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 137 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0262554100
  • Publisher Date: 04 Mar 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things


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