ARTH 1100 Lecture 2: 3_a_Lecture Notes_CH3_Maximizing the Four Affordances(2)
14 Feb 2017
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Chapter 3, murray - maximizing the affordances of the digital medium. An incomplete list of areas within interactive media, using the computer and also the internet: Informational in public tool black board spaces. Mooc (massive open for online content. online courses) Graphics and interaction projected and embedded in. What we can see from the incomplete list above is that the tools to create the content, to host the content and afford interaction, to allow the manipulation of the content, is extremely broad and growing in complexity. Murray offers the four affordances or properties as a way to organize the survey of the vast yet single digital medium. These four representational properties are the affordances of the digital environment. The ability to represent and execute conditional behaviors. The ability to make things happen by actions we undertake; Socially oriented participation where the medium is a platform, or a mediator.
