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spir-8435	Hopkins, Julian	Assembling affordances: towards a theory of relational affordances	2013.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1983	133	48	Denver, USA 1 Assembling affordances: towards a theory of relational affordances Julian Hopkins Monash University Malaysia julian.hopkins@monash.edu Abstract Drawn from a long-term ethnographic research into personal blogging, this paper proposes a theoretical approach to the issue of materiality and culture in technology that combines the concept of affordances and that of Deleuze & Guattari’s concept of assemblage. Affordances Hutchby has defined affordances as “functional and relational aspects which frame, while not determining, the possibilities for agentic action in relation to an object” (2001, p. 444).	cache/spir-8435.pdf	txt/spir-8435.txt