Sketching Bitcoin: Empirical Research of Digital Affordances

Velasco, Pablo R.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-40700-5_6

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“…Since its inception, the affordance concept has been expanded and developed differently. Educational affordance (Shin, 2019), emotional affordance, technological affordance (Velasco, 2016) and motivational affordance (Jung et al , 2010) are examples of such diverse conceptualization. Motivational affordances comprise the properties of an object that determine whether and how it can support one's motivational needs (Zhang, 2008).…”

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The effects of security and traceability of blockchain on digital affordance

Shin

Hwang

2020

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PurposeThis study takes an affordance approach to explain how users perceive the affordance of user action within blockchain and examines how it influences the subsequent user experience. Focusing on the effect of trust on cognitive processes, the authors analyze how affordances in blockchains affect the user experience.Design/methodology/approachThe blockchain affordances are examined through a two-stage process. The authors employ a qualitative analysis based on insights gained from the current literature and interviews. The authors then apply a quantitative survey to examine the role of trust in interactions with blockchain services. A structural user model was tested in which their appreciation of affordances of blockchain predicted the trust and satisfaction.FindingsUsers' appreciation for transparency and reliability explained to what extent they trust and are satisfied, thereby suggesting the heuristic roles of trust in blockchains. The study findings indicate a heuristic role for trust regarding underlying links to technological and affective affordances. A user's cognitive heuristics affect their attitudes toward blockchain, in which technological features are processed through users' perceptions and experience.Research limitations/implicationsThe model contributes to the conceptualization of security, privacy and traceability along with trust, which is then linked to transparency and reliability. The findings show how the frame of affordances gains explanatory power by being linked to the concepts of affect and emotion. The heuristics of direct perception of security–traceability–privacy (STP) can be used to understand the trajectory of heuristics and ongoing choices of blockchain.Practical implicationsThe study results offer a lens through which to address the technology's most common problems by pairing user experience principles and heuristics to blockchain technologies. This study offers insights into the understanding of user actions related to blockchains and into practical implications for developing trust-based services. The results guide the application and tailoring of motivational affordances in blockchain.Originality/valueWhile blockchain technology has gained popularity and momentum, there has been little research on how specific features of blockchain technology create value. This study contributes to the research gap by highlighting the role and dimension of trust in relation to STP in blockchains and provides meaningful implications for theory and practice.

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Section: Affordances: Decoding User Experience Of Blockchainmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effects of security and traceability of blockchain on digital affordance

Shin

Hwang

2020

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“…Defined as action possibilities available in an environment, affordances emerge from the relationships between human subjects and inhuman objects, for example, mediated technologies such as social media platforms and digital communication channels (Evans et al, 2017). The affordance framework provides a relational lens for scholars to explain divergent human behavior in various media environments (Mao & DeAndrea, 2019;Zhou, 2021), characterize emerging technologies' opportunities for human interactions (Shin et al, 2020;Velasco, 2016), and critique the consequences of technological development on stakeholders, organizations, and societies (Kozinets et al, 2021;Rice et al, 2017). For example, a considerable amount of social scientific research has examined how the affordance of anonymity on social media platforms could affect user behaviors (e.g., Halpern & Gibbs, 2013;Mao & DeAndrea, 2019) and how users can build upon technological affordances to perform involvement, interaction, and activities and achieve different "sociabilities" on the same platform (Ariel & Avidar, 2015).…”

Section: Is Mediated Dialogic Communication Even Possible?: An Afford...mentioning

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Computer mediation vs. dialogic communication: How media affordances affect organization-public relationship building

Zhou

2022

Public Relations Review

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“…In the literature on affordances in Hwang and Shin (2020, p. 916) salient nuances of the concept of affordances are offered. These include "educational affordance (Shin, 2019), emotional affordance, technological affordance (Velasco, 2016) and motivational affordance (Jung et al, 2010), affective affordances (Zhao et al, 2013). The various lenses on affordances are aptly summed up as having to be "properly perceived for the user to recognize the potential for action (Jung et al, 2010).…”

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Technology Adoption Model: Is Use/Non-use a Case of Technological Affordances or Psychological Disposition or Pedagogical Reasoning in the Context of Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic Period?

Sadeck

2022

Front. Educ.

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The educational implications of COVID-19 have shaken both practitioners and researchers alike. Practitioners were expected to use technologies instantaneously, and this set up trauma in individuals. The ramification of understanding people’s response to why technologies are accepted/not accepted and used/not used has significant implications for education. This conceptual paper sets out the process used to develop a theoretical framework based on the technology acceptance model (TAM). The constructs within the original TAM and extended TAM, were explored to understand “why” practicing teachers would choose to use technologies for educational purposes at primary and secondary school levels during the COVID-19 pandemic period. The TAM has been criticized for being simplistic and narrowly focused. Many researchers criticize TAM because their finding cannot be confirmed or that the constructs don’t fit their needs. This paper challenges these critiques. The theoretical framework suggested in this paper represents a view of reality of the relational and influencing effects of variables that potentially moderate or control affective and cognitive responses. It contributes to the existing literature through a comprehensive reviewing of concepts, constructs and COVID-19 “event” contextual realities. The findings offered are that: contextual realities and application often require a grounded theoretical framework to unravel complex questions and answers; the suggested unidirectional influence of perceived ease of use (PEOU) on perceived usefulness (PU) can be challenged through a dispositional rationale; neglecting non-use as a reality severely hampers TAMs applicability in studies focused on theory testing, and TAM provides sufficient flexibility by leaving the doors open for adaptation, and this flexibility is an asset in social science research.

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Sketching Bitcoin: Empirical Research of Digital Affordances

Cited by 23 publications

References 28 publications

The effects of security and traceability of blockchain on digital affordance

The effects of security and traceability of blockchain on digital affordance

Computer mediation vs. dialogic communication: How media affordances affect organization-public relationship building

Technology Adoption Model: Is Use/Non-use a Case of Technological Affordances or Psychological Disposition or Pedagogical Reasoning in the Context of Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic Period?

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