Bodies, technologies and action possibilities: When is an affordance?

Sociology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 415-433

  Bloomfield, Brian P ^a   Latham, Yvonne ^a   Vurdubakis, Theo ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affordances; Body; Disabilities; Sociomateriality; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953821991     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038510362469     Document Type: Article

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