Imagined Affordance: Reconstructing a Keyword for Communication Theory

In this essay, we reconstruct a keyword for communication—affordance. Affordance, adopted from ecological psychology, is now widely used in technology studies, yet the term lacks a clear definition. This is especially problematic for scholars grappling with how to theorize the relationship between t...

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Main Authors: Peter Nagy, Gina Neff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-09-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305115603385