Social Affordance

Carvalho, Eros Moreira de

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“…We adopt the term “socialized” and not “social” (from Fayard & Weeks, 2014) because the latter may cause confusion given it is usually applied to study affordances that arise from social networking within the communication literature (e.g., Sutcliffe et al, 2011) or social interaction within the cognition and behaviour literature (e.g., de Carvalho, 2020). All artefacts have their preferred use (and affordances), or alternate ones that are not intended.…”

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Social positioning matters: A socialized affordance perspective of mHealth in India

Pandey

Zheng

2023

Information Systems Journal

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Existing research on technology affordance rarely considers the role of social structures in shaping the interaction between human actors and technology. In this paper, we draw upon the concept of social positioning to explore how socialized affordances of technology adoption, as well as their impact in work and social life, are shaped by the social positions that human actors occupy within multiple social structures. We do so by examining the adoption of mHealth devices by community health workers in India. The study generates theoretical implications for research on affordances of technology and social structures by integrating social positioning of actors in the analysis of a digital practice, and enriching IS research by incorporating the broader social arrangements and power relations.

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Social positioning matters: A socialized affordance perspective of mHealth in India

Pandey

Zheng

2023

Information Systems Journal

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“…It should be noted that one's perception of the postbox as affording letter-mailing is also determined by this person's 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.823971 previous sociocultural practice (imagine there is a country without a postal system) (cf. Gibson, 1979;de Carvalho, 2020;Borghi, 2021). In the first usage, social affordances can be seen as inherent properties of social surroundings that could constrain the possibilities of the actions executed by an agent.…”

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A glimpse into social perception in light of vitality forms

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The American psychoanalyst and developmental psychologist Daniel Stern’s idea of vitality forms might suggest a new solution to explain how other minds are intensely expressed in their actions. Vitality forms characterize the expressive style of actions. The effective perception of vitality forms allows people to recognize the affective states and intentions of others in their actions, and could even open the possibility of properties of objects that are indicated by the given actions. Currently, neurophysiological studies present that there might be a neural mirror mechanism in the dorso-central insula (DCI), middle cingulate cortex (MCC), and other related cerebral areas, which serve to preferably perceive and deliver vitality forms of actions. In this article, possible types of vitality forms related to other minds, which have been brought to particular attention in recent years, have been collected and discussed in the following four areas: (1) Vitality forms on understanding non-verbal intention, (2) on understanding verbal intention, (3) vitality forms as grounding social cognition, and (4) as grounding social emotion. These four areas, however, might refer to an entirety of a binary actor-observer communicative landscape. In this review, we try to simplify the analysis by relying on two fundamental dimensions of criteria: first, the idea of vitality forms is conceived as the most basic way of observing subsequent higher-order dimensions of action, that is, understanding intention in the style of action. Thus, in the first two subsections, the relationships between vitality forms and their roles in understanding non-verbal and verbal intention have been discussed. Second, vitality forms could also be conceived as background conditions of all the other mental categories, that is, vitality forms can ground cognition and emotion in a social context. In the second dimension, the existence of social cognition or emotion depends on the existence of the stylistic kinematics of action. A grounding relation is used to distinguish a ground, that is, vitality forms, and its grounded mental categories. As relating with the domain of social perception, in this review, it has been discussed vitality forms possibly could ground social cognition and social emotion, respectively.

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“…Yet the greatest challenge is the absence of information; since according to Gibson, the gaze at the root of perception is a “seeking” and “attentive” one, gathering environmental information according to the perceptual and interactive structure – while social and mental relationships reside mostly beyond the pale of sight! (de Carvalho, 2020)…”

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“… 6. The transition from visually perceiving objects in the environment to social perception isn’t self-explanatory, and Gibson himself was unclear about it; although he did suppose its possibility and accord it great importance, especially in his later work (de Carvalho, 2020; Fiebich, 2014; Presti, 2020). …”

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Caring as the Default of Empathic Direct Perception

Lampert

2022

Emotion Review

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The phenomenological understanding of empathy as the direct experiencing of the mental states (feelings, intentions, moods) of others eschews the identification of empathy with caring. At the same time, it leaves open the possibility of sadistic pleasure, indifference, or malice as consequences of empathic experience. In this paper, I intend to defend the place of caring as an inseparable part of the empathic experience, specifically when understood as direct perception. My defense relies on (a) conceiving of attentive concern as a perceptual predisposition, and (b) understanding the caring responsiveness of the empathizer as embedded in her direct perception of the empathee's mental states. My claim proceeds by three steps. Firstly, I will present the need to include caring within empathy through the problem that arises from excluding it. Secondly, I will argue for the presence of active responsiveness, inherent in the phenomenological concept of perception and expressed more explicitly in its Gibsonian understanding. Thirdly, I will propose my understanding of attentive concern as a predisposition, which together with the intentionality attributed to the other (itself also a disposition) forms the pre-perceptual basis for identifying empathy with caring.

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Social Affordance

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Social positioning matters: A socialized affordance perspective of mHealth in India

Social positioning matters: A socialized affordance perspective of mHealth in India

A glimpse into social perception in light of vitality forms

Caring as the Default of Empathic Direct Perception

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