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This chapter outlines the origins and meaning of the concept of affordances, presents some examples, and discusses its relevance to studies of digital media. It suggests that the uniquely socially malleable nature of digital media, the variety of uses they engender, and the simultaneous awareness of the limitations of the mediated interaction that they allow, explain the increased use of affordances in analyses of digital media.
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The revised 2013 edition is referenced below.
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Incidentally, this may explain how the use of affordances spread into the fields of human-computer interaction, computer-mediated communication, and to digital studies.
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Hopkins, J. (2020). The Concept of Affordances in Digital Media. In: Friese, H., Nolden, M., Rebane, G., Schreiter, M. (eds) Handbuch Soziale Praktiken und Digitale Alltagswelten. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-08357-1_67
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