Technologies, Texts and Affordances

By I. Hutchby. 2001

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

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Respecifying Mediated Interaction (2016, background): “They are properties of things, but these properties are neither determined nor finite, for they emerge in actual encounters between objects and actors (Hutchby, 2001b, p. 129).”
When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies: Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies (2011, neutral): “Hutchby (2001) seeks a middle ground between these prior conceptualizations by emphasizing the relational character of affordances.”
Information Technology and the Changing Fabric of Organization (2007, background): “We lean towards the language of affordances versus structuration (Giddens 1979) given the focus on the materiality of technology (e.g., Hutchby 2001) in the affordances literature.”
When Does Technology Use Enable Network Change in Organizations? A Comparative Study of Feature Use and Shared Affordances (2013, background): “In this way, affordances are relational (Hutchby 2001; Zammuto et al. 2007).”
Materiality and change: Challenges to building better theory about technology and organizing (2008, background): “Eventually, however, scholars began to caution that such an orientation may be misguided because material phenomena (be they natural or technical) do things that cannot be attributed to social practice (Fujimura, 2006; Hutchby, 2001; Pickering, 2001).”
A Theory of Organization-EHR Affordance Actualization (2014, background): “Thus, in our mid-range theory, we specify the technology features and actor characteristics giving rise to a particular affordance, the type of actor that might be involved, how affordances are both enabling and constraining, and the associated goals.”
Photocopiers and Water-coolers: The Affordances of Informal Interaction (2007, background): “…to the species — terrain features that afford locomotion, for example, or physical properties of objects that afford grasping — research has shown that affordances, especially of man-made objects, are linked to a complex web of cultural knowledge and conventional rules regarding use (Hutchby 2001).”
The emergence of (2016, background): “Hutchby (2001) emphasises that the concept of an affordance can be used to emphasise not only the feature of an object that allows or constrains, but also that those affordances are realised by the perception of those interacting with the object.”
Social Media and Their Affordances for Organizing: A Review and Agenda for Research (2017, neutral): “For example, Hutchby (2001) argues that an object’s affordances can change across different contexts even though its materiality does not.”
Explicating Affordances: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research (2017, background): “This problem is complicated by scholars’ reliance on a few key sources to define affordances (i.e., Gibson, 1979; Hutchby, 2001; Norman, 1988; and more recently, Treem & Leonardi, 2012).”
The Affordances of Social Media Platforms (2018, background): “As our brief discussion of interfaces has shown, platforms address users differently and the possibilities for action are therefore relative to users (see Gibson, 2015; Hutchby, 2001).”
Social Media Use in Organizations: Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association (2013, neutral): “As several recent studies of technology use in organizations have noted (Hutchby, 2001; Leonardi, 2010; Markus & Silver, 2008), using a relational approach to affordances to explain how a new technology merges with an existing organizational system is useful for theory in at least four ways.”
The Contradictory Influence of Social Media Affordances on Online Communal Knowledge Sharing (2013, neutral): “The concept of an affordance refers to the action potential that can be taken given a technology (Gibson, 1979; Hutchby, 2001; Leonardi, 2011; Majchrzak & Markus, 2013).”
Imagined Affordance: Reconstructing a Keyword for Communication Theory (2015, background): “For instance, Hutchby (2001) argues that affor-dances are relational entities that are constituted through interactions between human beings and the material characteristics of things.”