Cultural Affordances and Social Media

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dc.contributor.authorSun, Yinan
dc.contributor.authorSuthers, Daniel D.
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-24T19:37:05Z
dc.date.available2020-12-24T19:37:05Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-05
dc.description.abstractThis paper first reviews the development and application of affordances theory in the field of social media studies. Then, it examines the significance and limitations of the original meaning of affordances of the environment that is provided by American psychologist James Gibson. The paper argues that the cultural aspect of affordances has been understated and should be included as part of affordances theory. To enrich theoretical understanding of affordances and further facilitate empirical studies of social media affordances, the paper offers a novel definition of cultural affordances that bridges cultural studies and social media studies. The new definition of cultural affordances includes two layers, which are cultural affordances of technology and affordances of the cultural. Later, the paper provides examples to showcase how this novel definition can be applied in prior empirical studies with a focus on WeChat.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2021.368
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-4-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/70982
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectSocial Networking and Communities
dc.subjectaffordances
dc.subjectcultural studies
dc.subjectsocial media
dc.subjecttechnology
dc.subjectwechat
dc.titleCultural Affordances and Social Media
prism.startingpage3017

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