... reviewed suggests that two affordance dimensions recur across diverse forms of print use: stability and differentiation. Rooted in readers' sensory engagement with books as material objects, these affordances arise through the combined experience of touch and vision. Stability refers to the perception...

... the Indian state’s rhetoric of “seamless,” “paperless” and “contactless” welfare delivery. Identity documents Digital data Documentation Gender Caste State Bureaucracy Materiality Affect Within the field of Information Science, the making, circulation and usage of documents have...

.... The paper finds that information in the context of open letters is informed by different, and at times contradicting, temporalities and timescapes which align with various material, institutional and discursive practices. Based on this finding, the paper argues that notions of information are intrinsically...

... understanding of genre as digital social action. Particular emphasis will be on archiving, tagging, and searching as social actions afforded by digital media as a function of their materiality. The approach is critical analysis and discussion. Although this understanding of genre may be somewhat...

.... In the present paper, the empirical material is used to illustrate and exemplify the conceptual and theoretical propositions rather than to present new empirical insights per se. Even if the term BO might suggest that these things are relatively stable artefacts, several researchers have emphasised...