Hutchby2001d
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Hutchby2001d |
| Author(s) | Ian Hutchby |
| Title | Technologies, texts and affordances |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Technology, Affordances, Materiality, Realism, Social constructionism |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Journal | Sociology |
| Volume | 35 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 441–456 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/S0038038501000219 |
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Abstract
In contrast to recent sociological emphases on the social shaping of technology, this article proposes and illustrates a way of analysing the technological shaping of sociality. Drawing on the concept of affordances (Gibson 1979), the article argues for a recognition of the constraining, as well as enabling, materiality of artefacts. The argument is set in the theoretical context of one of the most recent and comprehensive statements of anti-essentialism (Grint and Woolgar 1997). The position is illustrated through a reinterpretation of some case studies used by proponents of the radical constructivist position.
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