In contrast to recent sociological emphases on the social shaping of technology, this article
proposes and illustrates a way of analysing the technological shaping of sociality. Drawing …

Brunel University rian Rappert (2003) takes me to task on a number of grounds in my
discussion of the potential of 'affordances' as a conceptual resource in the analysis of social …

Do artifacts act? Should agency be assigned to them in accounts of social change? Or are
human beings and social structures like groups and organisations the only social agents …

What should one think of things? This question is a pressing one, now that Technology
Studies has discovered artifacts as the objects of inquiry par excellence. Societies are not …

If you are asked whether technology influences human behaviour, do not hasten to answer
in the affirmative. You may be accused of being determinist, and you could attract a swarm of …

Borrowed from ecological psychology, the concept of affordances is often said to offer the
social study of technology a means of re-framing the question of what is, and what is …

This paper explores ways in which thesocial shaping of technology'(SST) approach to the
technology-society relationship might be extended, by drawing on ideas which have been …

This paper follows recent science studies in theorizing information technologies as socio‐
material configurations, aligned into more and less durable forms. The study of how new …

Recent calls for more attention to the impact of the material in organizing processes tend to
neglect the non-material nature of many of the technological objects that populate our world …