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Navigating The Kaleidoscope Of Object(Ive)S: A User-Experience Approach To Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, Madeline Bruegger
Navigating The Kaleidoscope Of Object(Ive)S: A User-Experience Approach To Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, Madeline Bruegger
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Activity Theory, specifically third-generation activity theory also known as Cultural-Historical Activity Theory or CHAT (Engeström, 2001, 2015; Leontiev, 1978, 1981; Vygotsky, 1978) has largely been used as a framework for studying different networks of activity, encountered by subjects who utilize tools or mediating artifacts in order to divide their labor within particular communities. This theoretical and empirical project analyzes a transnational user’s experiences performing their identity on Instagram by answering the research question: How does a user with transnational literacy experiences perform their identity and manage communities through the mediation of particular technologies on Instagram? Using mixed-methods from four data …