Configuring Action in Objects

From Mutual Space to Media Space

Bibliographic Data

ID19002253
AuthorsC Heath (0000-0003-3196-0197, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume7
Issue1-2
Pages81-104
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMind Culture and Activity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1074-9039 • E-ISSN: 1532-7884
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10749039.2000.9677649
OpenAlexW1972252780
LanguageEN
Citations received27
References cited6

It has long been recognized that the material environment is an essential feature of the organization of social action and interaction. It is only recently, however, that we have witnessed a burgeoning body of empirical studies, from within both the social and cognitive sciences, that has begun to delineate the ways in which objects are socially constructed and feature in social relations and activities. Despite this growing interest in the object in social life, there remains a paucity of research concerned with how objects are reflexively constituted in and through social interaction. In this article, we consider how aspects of the material environment are rendered momentarily intelligible in and through interaction and the ways in which objects provide a resource for the recognition of the actions and activities of others. We examine interaction in both conventional working environments and new experimental spaces created through advanced telecommunication and communication technologies to reveal the ways in which the sense and significance of social actions and activities are embedded in, and inseparable from, the local ecology

Cognitive science · Human–computer interaction · Social relation · Social science · Social space · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Psychology · Usability and User Interface Design · Artificial Intelligence

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