Theorizing Affordances: From Request to Refuse

Davis, Jenny; Chouinard, James B.

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“…In digital sociology and media studies, the term 'affordances' is used to describe what the features of digital media and devices allow or invite users to do (Davis and Chouinard 2016). Facebook as a social media platform offers specific affordances that invite certain modes of engagement from users and closes off others.…”

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‘Keeping It Real’: women's Enactments of Lay Health Knowledges and Expertise on Facebook

Maslen

Lupton

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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This article presents findings from a qualitative study concerning Australian women's use of Facebook for health and medical information and support and the implications for understanding modes of lay knowledge and expertise. Thinking with feminist new materialism theory, we identify the relational connections, affective forces and agential capacities described by participants as technological affordances came together with human bodily affordances. Affective forces were a dominant feature in users’ accounts. Women were able to make relational connections with peers based on how valid or relevant they found other group members’ expertise and experiences, how supportive other members were, how strong they wanted their personal connection to be and how much privacy they wanted to preserve. We identified three modes of engagement: 1) expertise claims based on appropriation and distribution of biomedical knowledge and experience; 2) sharing experiential knowledge without claiming expertise and 3) evaluation and use of knowledge presented by others principally through observing. We conclude that an ‘expert patient’ is someone who is familiar with the rules of engagement on sites such as Facebook and is able to negotiate and understand the affects and levels of disclosure and intimacy that such engagement demands.

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‘Keeping It Real’: women's Enactments of Lay Health Knowledges and Expertise on Facebook

Maslen

Lupton

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Th e three examples analysed here show how shame experiences vary depending on family relationships, sexuality and the rhythms of the assaults. Shame in these cases is still related to the look, and (as argued earlier) this exposure is an aff ordance of social media in the sense that the platforms (mostly Facebook) where the images spread all encourage sharing (Davis & Chouinard, 2016). In a similar sense, digital media grant the aggressors with anonymity, such as by using fake profi les.…”

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Defying shame

Mortensen

2020

MedieKultur

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Th is article gives voice to Mathilde, Karen and Amalie: Th ree young women who had intimate images of themselves shared non-consensually online. Th eir experiences help build a framework for categorising digital sexual assault (DSA), as well as giving insight into how shame, in cases of DSA, connects to social media aff ordances. Th e empirical data was produced during four creative writing workshops. Th e participants described their experiences during these workshops and they collectively developed strategies for defying shame. Th is article analyses their experiences of shame, their shame-defying strategies, and the role that social media played in forming types of aggressors and assault experiences. I present what I call the onlooker as a digitally augmented aggressor and I show how this aggressor infl icts shame through the look, as described by Sartre. Th is results in a discussion of imaginary, progressive contra-shaming, which is one of the four coping strategies that showed empowering potential in relation to DSA.MedieKultur 67

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“…The debate about this concept's meaning and use is widespread, and ongoing. For a sampling of the issues at hand, see Bucher and Helmond (2018), Davis and Chouinard (2017), Evans et al (2017), Nagy and Neff (2015).…”

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Navigating Creepy versus Cool in Wearable Biotech

Wissinger

2018

Information, Communication & Society

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This paper considers how personal data protections figure into the design process of wearable technology. The data question is becoming especially important in the face of recent innovations in biotechnology that capitalize on the new fungibility of biology and electronics, in which new biotech wearables capitalize on the ability to analyze and track changes in blood, sweat, and tears. Interviews and participant observation with wearable tech designers, data scientists, fashion tech entrepreneurs, and select experts in cybersecurity and intellectual property law, reveal a range of approaches to data protection in design within the culture where wearables are beginning to merge with biotech. While a few respondents were extremely vigilant about protecting consumer's privacy, the majority felt that when consumers 'opt in' to data sharing, they should be cognizant of the risks. From their perspective, it is not necessarily the producer's responsibility to protect user's personal data. These attitudes present a problematic logic, which leaves users vulnerable to data exploitation. The paper concludes by arguing that this laissez-faire culture is the environment in which wearable biotech is being developed and will be deployed. This emerging technology raises issues about bodies, data, and ownership in crucial need of analysis and critique to push its move into the mainstream toward more equitable and inclusive ends.

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Theorizing Affordances: From Request to Refuse

Cited by 271 publications

References 24 publications

‘Keeping It Real’: women's Enactments of Lay Health Knowledges and Expertise on Facebook

‘Keeping It Real’: women's Enactments of Lay Health Knowledges and Expertise on Facebook

Defying shame

Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Navigating Creepy versus Cool in Wearable Biotech

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