The sudden experience of the computer

Rosenberger, Robert

doi:10.1007/s00146-009-0190-9

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“…According to Don Ihde (1990) and Robert Rosenberger (2009a, 2009b, everyday users of computers come to embody their devices in significant ways. Rosenberger explains ''These embodiment relations often become deeply transparent and deeply sedimented.…”

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Ethics and aesthetics of technologies

Tripathi

2010

AI & Soc

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Ethics and aesthetics of technologies

Tripathi

2010

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“…Secondly, to explain how certain stabilities take precedence over others, Rosenberger (2009) introduces the concept of a relational strategy, which he defines as "the particular configuration of bodily habits, intentions, and conceptions that make it possible for a person to take up a particular stable relation" (p. 176). Learning to write with a pencil not only means learning the alphabet, it also includes learning the tripod grip (holding the pencil with ones thumb and index finger), adopting the right posture, and learning to draw the letters.…”

Section: Studying Human-technology-world Relationsmentioning

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Magnetic and multistable: reinterpreting the affordances of educational technology

Aagaard

2018

Int J Educ Technol High Educ

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The concept of affordances has become a popular analytical tool in educational technology. The present article, however, argues that the current understanding of affordances does not adequately address the use of educational technology and instead advocates a phenomenological reinterpretation. The article first introduces Gibson's concept of affordances and describes how scholars in the field of educational technology have invoked this concept to compile lists of technical action possibilities. It then argues that affordances do not just 'offer' a range of action possibilities; they actively 'invite' certain actions. To explore how such behavioral invitations manifest themselves in the everyday use of educational technologies, the article introduces the analytical concepts of multistability, relational strategy, and mediation and uses these concepts to analyze the affordances of laptops in the classroom. It is argued that laptops act as powerful attentional magnets that often invite students to become distracted. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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“…Technologies are said to be encountered as part of the embodied self (Ihde, 1990(Ihde, , 1993Eason, 2003;Rosenberger, 2009). …”

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confidence: 99%