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It tracks through Weinberger, as<br \/>\nwell, so the application here isn&#8217;t out of the blue.&nbsp; In his chapter on<br \/>\nSpace in <i>Small Pieces Loosely Joined<\/i> Weinberger says, &quot;Our space is full<br \/>\nof opportunities, obstacles and dangers, or what the psychologist James Gibson<br \/>\ncalled affordances (e.g., the chair affords us the possibility of sitting) and<br \/>\nthe philosopher Martin Heidegger called the ready-to-hand&quot; (32).&nbsp; I can&#8217;t<br \/>\nremember if I&#8217;d learned about <i>affordances<\/i> before this semester; seems<br \/>\nlike a basketball coach once hollered something about the affordances of the<br \/>\ngame:&nbsp; playing through potentials and opportunism constantly responsive to<br \/>\nin-game context, or something.&nbsp; But maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, <i>affordances<\/i> came up in other reading this week.<br \/>\nThis succinct bit comes from a 1974 essay from Bransford and McCarrell called<br \/>\n&quot;A Sketch of a Cognitive Approach to Comprehension,&quot; and it matched up nicely, I<br \/>\nthink, with another term&#8211;manipulanda&#8211;and, as well, some of our conversation<br \/>\nlast week about characterizing network literacy (whatever you call <i>it<\/i>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The notion of a nonarbitrary relation between what something looks like and<br \/>\n  what it means is related to J.J. Gibson&#8217;s (1966) notion of affordances.&nbsp;<br \/>\n  Certain objects and their properties provide visual information for the<br \/>\n  activities and interactions they afford.&nbsp; So, for example, sharp objects<br \/>\n  afford piercing, certain extensions (e.g., handles) afford grasping, hardness<br \/>\n  affords pounding, and roundness affords rolling.&nbsp; Even surfaces afford<br \/>\n  activities since they are &#8216;walk-onable,&#8217; &#8216;climbable,&#8217; and the like.&nbsp;<br \/>\n  Tolman (1958) presented similar notions in his essay on &#8216;sign-gestalts.&#8217; These<br \/>\n  are not simply information about &#8216;the larger wholes in which the perceived<br \/>\n  configuration will itself be embedded as one term in a larger means-end<br \/>\n  proposition [p. 79].&quot; Tolman further introduced the term &quot;manipulanda&quot; which<br \/>\n  he defines as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n    properties of objects which support (or make possible) motor<br \/>\n    manipulations of the species&#8230;One and the same environmental object will<br \/>\n    afford quite different manipulanda to an animal which possesses hands from<br \/>\n    what it can and will to an animal which possesses only a mouth, or only a<br \/>\n    bill, on only claws&#8230;grasp-ableness, pick-up-ableness, throw-ableness,<br \/>\n    heaviness (heave-ableness) and the like&#8211;these are manipulanda [p. 82].\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Basically, I&#8217;d like to propose the inclusion of these terms in the network(ed)<br \/>\nrhetorics glossary (<a  href=\"http:\/\/wrt.syr.edu\/wiki\/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Terms\">wanna second it?<\/a>).&nbsp; I&#8217;m finding these terms\/concepts<br \/>\nhelpful for understanding many of the paradoxes Weinberger works through and<br \/>\nmany of the tensions surrounding the assignment of genres to weblogs (or weblogs<br \/>\nto genres).&nbsp; It&#8217;s as if we have available to us an abundance of <i>digital<br \/>\nmanipulanda<\/i>&#8211;affordance-ness with the network and with our related<br \/>\ninvolvements.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>What does a web(log) <i>afford<\/i>?&nbsp; A link?&nbsp; A network?<\/p>\n<p>Cross-posted to<br \/>\n<a  href=\"http:\/\/wrt-brooke.syr.edu\/net\/archives\/2005\/02\/affordance_and.html\"><br \/>\nNetwork(ed) Rhetorics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>What does a network afford? 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