The Interactive Potential of Web 2.0

Eryn L Grant

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The Interactive Potential of Web 2.0

Eryn L Grant

2010 European Association for the Study of Science and Technology Book of Abstracts

European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST): Practicing Science and Technology Performing the Social, 2010 (Trento, Italy, 02-Sep-2010–04-Sep-2010)

European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)

2010

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Film, Television and Digital Media

Web 2.0

affordances

container technologies

Harold Garfinkel

participatory

produsage

sociology

Erving Goffman

Following the position of Beer and Burrows (2007) this paper poses a re-conceptualization of Web 2.0 interaction in order to understand the properties of action possibilities in and of Web 2.0. The paper discusses the positioning of Web 2.0 social interaction in light of current descriptions, which point toward the capacities of technology in the production of social affordances within that domain (Bruns 2007; Jenkins 2006; O'Reilly 2005). While this diminishes the agency and reflexivity for users of Web 2.0 it also inadvertently positions tools as the central driver for the interactive potential available (Everitt and Mills 2009; van Dicjk 2009). In doing so it neglects the possibility that participants may be more involved in the production of Web 2.0 than the technology that underwrites it. It is this aspect of Web 2.0 that is questioned in the study with particular interest on how an analytical option may be made available to broaden the scope of investigations into Web 2.0 to include a study of the capacity for an interactive potential in light of how action possibilities are presented to users through communication with others (Bonderup Dohn 2009).

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Title: The Interactive Potential of Web 2.0
Authors: Eryn L Grant (Author) - Brownlow PR
Publication details: 2010 European Association for the Study of Science and Technology Book of Abstracts; 16
Conference details: European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST): Practicing Science and Technology Performing the Social, 2010 (Trento, Italy, 02-Sep-2010–04-Sep-2010)
Publisher: European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
Date published: 2010
Organisation Unit: Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99448641802621
Output Type: Conference paper

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