The Materiality of Technology: An Affordance Perspective

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Explicating Affordances: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research (2017, background): “…researchers because it suggests that neither materiality (e.g., an object) nor a constructivist view (e.g., human agency) are sufficient to explain technology use (Leonardi & Barley, 2008), and advocates focusing on relational actions that occur among people and technologies (Faraj & Azad, 2012).”
Theoretical foundations for the study of sociomateriality (2013, background): “The perceptions of what functions an artifact affords (or constrains) can change across different contexts even though the artifact's materiality does not (Faraj & Azad, 2012; Robey, Raymond, & Anderson, 2012).”
Imagined Affordance: Reconstructing a Keyword for Communication Theory (2015, background): “Affordances link the capabilities of technology artifacts to the users’ purposes (Faraj & Azad, 2012).”
Social Media and Their Affordances for Organizing: A Review and Agenda for Research (2017, unknown): “…on objects’ materiality and on people’s perceptions of affordance and constraint, an affordance lens is useful for theory in that it has the potential to help explain why, how, and when new technologies – like social media – become enrolled in and affect organizational action (Faraj & Azad, 2012).”