Dave Jones

1 article
Old Dominion University ORCID: 0009-0009-6211-4904
  1. Contextualizing Experiences: Tracing the Relationships Between People and Technologies in the Social Web
    Abstract

    This article uses both actor network theory (ANT) and activity theory to trace and analyze the ways in which both Twitter and third-party applications support the development and maintenance of meaningful contexts for Twitter participants. After situating context within the notion of a ‘‘fire space’’, the authors use ANT to trace the actors that support finding and moving information. Then they analyze the ‘‘prescriptions’’ of each application using the activity-theory distinction between actions and operations. Finally, they combine an activity-theory analysis with heuristics derived from the concept of ‘‘findability’’ in order to explore design implications for Social Web applications.

    doi:10.1177/1050651911400839