Making Affordances Real: Socio-Material Prefiguration, Performed Agency, and Coordinated Activities in Human–Robot Communication

Usually, the alluring notion of “affordances” comes with the idea that technology makes some activities possible while constraining others. Our article departs from this dichotomic view and seeks to appreciate the multiplicity of socio-material prefiguration. Discussing three empirical examples from...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Christian Pentzold, Andreas Bischof
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-08-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305119865472