Social affordance

Social affordance

Social affordance is a specialization of the term affordance, and refers to the properties of an object or environment that permit social actions. Social affordance is most often used in the context of a social technology such as wiki and chat applications.

References

Knebel, Nicole (2004) [http://ou.nl/info-alg-english-r_d/OTEC_research/projects/CM3C_ckr.htm "The sociability of computer-mediated communication, coordination and collaboration (CM3C) systems"] as retrieved on Feb 21, 2005 20:37:03 GMT by Google Cache


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