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Article Dans Une Revue Media Theory Année : 2019

Rethinking while Redoing: Tactical Affordances of Assistive Technologies in Photography by the Visually Impaired

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This article addresses ableism in 21 st century network society by analysing afford-ances in the practices of visually impaired photographers. The case study details how these photographers use assistive devices, tweaking affordances of both these devices and the photographic apparatus: its technical materialities, cultural conceptualizations and creative expressions. The main argument is that affordances operate in exchanges where sharing differences is key; visually impaired photographers make differences sharable through images, revealing vulnerabilities that emerge within a socio-digital condition that affects users across a spectrum of abilities. The argument unfolds through a rare combination of affordance theory about imaginative and diverse human-technology relations, media theory about technological dependence and disruption, disability studies on normativity and variation, and art historical readings informed by semiotics and phenomenology. The article contributes to cross-disciplinary research by demonstrating that affordances can be tactical, intervening in pervasive socio-digital systems that limit who counts as a normal user.
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hal-02470329 , version 1 (07-02-2020)

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Vendela Grundell. Rethinking while Redoing: Tactical Affordances of Assistive Technologies in Photography by the Visually Impaired. Media Theory, 2019, Rethinking Affordance, 3 (1), pp.185 - 214. ⟨hal-02470329⟩
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