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The Affordances of the Information and Communication Universe, or Who is Behind the Mass Media
RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2021 This article examines the specifics and perspectives of the information and communication universe theory for the analysis of the mass media. The aim is to explain the application of the concept of affordance in the context of media theory.
Iosif M. Dzyaloshinsky
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Epistemology and conceptual resources for the development of learning technologies [PDF]
, 2007 The issues raised by the design and development of technologies to enhance learning has led to a demand for an appropriate language and form of conceptualisation.
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Designing products with a focus on self-explanatory assembly, a case study [PDF]
, 2019 Designing products with a focus on self-explanatory assembly can reduce the use of procedural instructions and the associated problems. This paper describes how different groups of students, in two different design-engineering courses designed or ...
Parmentier, Davy +2 more
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Affordances of Historic Urban Landscapes: an Ecological Understanding of Human Interaction with the Past [PDF]
, 2014 Heritage has been defined differently in European contexts. Despite differences, a common challenge for historic urban landscape management is the integration of tangible and intangible heritage. Integration demands an active view of perception and human-
Alves, Susana
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Insights into the use and affordances of social and collaborative applications for student projects
South African Computer Journal, 2017 The use of social and collaborative computing has the potential of assisting learning and improving the ability to work together as part of a team. Team work is a graduate attribute that students need to acquire before transitioning from university into ...
Omolola Ola Bankole, Isabella Venter
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Musical Affordances and the Gestalt Legacy: enriching music perception
Gestalt Theory, 2023 In the current cognitive theory of music, concepts of Gestalt psychology are referred to in various ways. For example, neurocognitive models of music perception address the formation of auditory Gestalts as a stage in the formation of meaning.
Klotz Sebastian
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Affordances theory in multilingualism studies
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012 The concept of affordances originating in Gibson’s work (Gibson, 1977) is gaining ground in multilingualism studies (cf. Aronin and Singleton, 2010; Singleton and Aronin, 2007; Dewaele, 2010). Nevertheless, studies investigating affordances in respect of teaching, learning or using languages are still somewhat rare and tend to treat isolated aspects of
Larissa Aronin, David Singleton
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Cerebellum, Basal Ganglia, and Cortex Mediate Performance of an Aerial Pursuit Task
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2020 The affordance competition hypothesis is an ethologically inspired theory from cognitive neuroscience that provides an integrative neural account of continuous, real-time behavior, and will likely become increasingly relevant to the growing field of ...
Robert J. Gougelet +4 more
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What are the affordances of information and communication technologies? [PDF]
, 2004 The paper examines the notion that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have affordances that epitomize the features of our late modern age (Giddens, 1991) and explores whether these affordances (Salomon, 1993, p.
Conole, Grainne, Dyke, Martin
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Religions, 2022 Godly Play is an approach to religious education for young children between the ages of three and eight. The Godly Play room, modelled on Montessori’s prepared environment, provides opportunities for young children to respond to Sacred stories, Parables ...
Brendan Hyde
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