Algorithmic affordances—interactive mechanisms that allow users to exercise tangible control over algorithms—play a crucial role in recommender systems. They can facilitate users’ sense of autonomy, transparency, and ultimately ownership over a recommender’s results, all qualities that are central to …

Building on the metaphor of teachers as “knowing locations,” this contribution explores how teachers impact the socio-material learning environments. We illustrate how they influence teaching/learning making by zooming into two distinct settings: secondary school educational labs (E-labs) and art academy …

This study explores how TikTok Live’s fusion of immediacy, interactivity, and monetization creates a powerful infrastructure for political communication, one increasingly exploited for extremist mobilisation and disinformation. Focusing on far-right actors in Germany, it combines technical monitoring, …

The Academic Research and Professional Practice in Interaction Design (ARPPID) working conference is a new forum to explore the existing and possible connections between academic research and industrial practices in interaction design. This first ARPPID appointment aims at providing a platform for theoretical …

Discussion of how algorithmic affordances in educational recommender systems can help create responsible AI, but how they also potentially introduce new ethical problems

Many institutes for initial teacher education struggle to organise effective performance feedback within the context of student teaching practicum. As the cooperating teachers who provide this feedback bring their individualised ontologies, feedback practices have been characterised by inconsistencies …

The fundamental premise of this chapter is that technology-mediated remote work in and of itself is not necessarily a panacea for disability inclusion. This necessitates a focus on what technologies enables individuals to do (and not do). This chapter draws on a mixed-methods (a survey and qualitative …

Theoretici zoals Tobin Siebers, Ato Quayson en Martha Stoddard Holmes hebben onderzocht hoe handicaps verschillende emoties oproepen en hoe deze relatie centraal staat in het sociale leven. Dit artikel introduceert de concepten affordances en genre om deze relatie beter te begrijpen. Affordances verwijzen …

Short abstract: This paper brings a media theoretical perspective on mediatized wars. It argues that the affordances and use cultures of popular social media platforms turn wars into live media events, involving both people who are living under war and those joining in from a distance. Long abstract: …

Dit proefschrift onderzoekt de manieren waarop affectieve reacties op lichamen met een handicap worden gerepresenteerd en hoe dit ons uitnodigt om deze lichamen esthetisch te lezen. Ik stel dat deze affectieve impact begrepen kan worden als een ‘affordance’, een term die ik gebruik om te beschrijven …