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Technological Affordances

Technological Affordances is a theoretical construct that denotes the perceived and actual functional possibilities or actions that a technology enables, affords, or constrains for its users within a given socio-technical context, distinguished from related concepts by its emphasis on the reciprocal relationship between technological properties and user agency.

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568

Organizing for Innovation in the Digitized World

Youngjin Yoo, Richard J. Boland, Kalle Lyytinen et al. · Organization Science · 2012 · 2.4K citations

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When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies: Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies1

Leonardi · MIS Quarterly · 2011 · 1.7K citations

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Persuasive games: the expressive power of videogames

Choice Reviews Online · 2008 · 1.7K citations

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Technologies, Texts and Affordances

Ian Hutchby · Sociology · 2001 · 1.7K citations

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Technology affordances

William Gaver · 1991 · 1.4K citations

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  1. SS
    S. Shyam Sundar

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    8 publications · 670 citations

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    Paul M. Leonardi

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    7 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. DD
    Daniel D. Suthers

    University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, United States

    5 publications · 712 citations

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  4. DS
    Donghee Shin

    Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

    5 publications · 517 citations

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  5. MD
    Martin Dyke

    University of Southampton, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 541 citations

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Institutions

545

  1. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    13 h-index

    26 publications

    2.6K citations

  2. Northwestern University

    Evanston, United States

    10 h-index

    14 publications

    2.7K citations

  3. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    10 h-index

    10 publications

    1.1K citations

  4. Queensland University of Technology

    Brisbane, Australia

    8 h-index

    17 publications

    2K citations

  5. Macquarie University

    Sydney, Australia

    8 h-index

    11 publications

    1.5K citations

  6. Nanyang Technological University

    Singapore, Singapore

    8 h-index

    15 publications

    616 citations

  7. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    425 citations

  8. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    604 citations

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  1. New Media & Society

    18 publications · 1.5K citations

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  2. Social Media + Society

    9 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. British Journal of Educational Technology

    BJET · 9 publications · 1.2K citations

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  5. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 7 publications · 380 citations

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