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Index
Cover
Contents
Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
A Trolley Problem of a Particular Sort
Affordances
Operationalizing Affordances: The Mechanisms and Conditions Framework
How Affordances Matter
Situating the Text
Outline of the Book
2 A Brief History of Affordances
Origins in Ecological Psychology
Affordances Spread
Objects, Subjects, and Contexts
Sustained Critiques
Pathways Forward
3 Politics and Power
The Medium Is the Message: McLuhan on Technologies as Objects of Study
Actor-Network Theory: Overcoming Technological Determinism
The Politics of Artifacts
Technology as Materialized Action: Technological Efficacy and Human Agency
Chapter Summary
4 Mechanisms of Affordance
Requests and Demands
Encourage, Discourage, and Refuse
Allow
Chapter Summary
5 Conditions of Affordance
Perception
Dexterity
Cultural and Institutional Legitimacy
Chapter Summary
6 Affordances in Practice
Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis
The Walkthrough Method and App Feature Analysis
Values Reflection
Adversarial Design
Chapter Summary
7 Conclusion
Big Question 1: How Do We Identify and Equalize Digital Inequalities?
Big Question 2: How Do Social Media Affect Sociality and Psychological Well-being?
Big Question 3: How Do Information Economies Affect Political Life?
Big Question 4: How Will Driverless Cars Affect Urban Infrastructures?
Big Question 5: How Do Medical Technologies Afford Embodied Relations to Health?
Moving Forward
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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