Imagined Affordance: Reconstructing a Keyword for Communication Theory

Social Media and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Nagy, Peter ^a   Neff, Gina ^b  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

affect; affordance; communication theory; materiality; mediation; social construction; technological determinism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012187051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20563051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2056305115603385     Document Type: Article

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