Cultures-of-Use and Morphologies of Communicative Action

Authors

Steven L. Thorne, Portland State UniversityFollow

Published In

Language Learning & Technology

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-2016

Subjects

Social Media, Information theory, Language and languages -- Study and teaching

Abstract

In this article I revisit the cultures-of-use conceptual framework-that technologies, as forms and processes comprising human culture, mediate and assume variable meanings, values, and conventionalized functions for different communities (Thorne, 2003). I trace the antecedent arc of investigation and serendipitous encounters that led to the 2003 publication and conclude by proposing that digital environments and the human experience of activity form unified ecologies with agency distributed through the system.

Description

Copyright: 2016 Steven L. Thorne

This is a Open Access article published in the journal Language, Learning & Technology.

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/17512

Citation Details

Thorne, S. L. (2016). Cultures-of-use and morphologies of communicative action. Language Learning & Technology, 20(2), 185–191