Keywords
Affordance theory
Research support services
Social media
Media integration
Submitted : 2024-06-10
Accepted : 2024-06-25
Published : 2024-07-10
Abstract
University libraries, as an integral component of university research capabilities, are tasked with serving education by providing research support to faculty and students. This study adopts an affordance research perspective originating from ecological psychology to explore the optimization path of research support services in libraries in the new media era. Based on the characteristics of university library services, this research analyzes three aspects: production affordance, mobile affordance, and social affordance, and proposes practical recommendations to guide future research service practices of university libraries.
References
Talja S, Tenopir C, Late E, 2022, Desired Affordances of Scholarly E-Articles: Views from Scholars Based on Open-Ended Answers. Libri, 72(1): 67–81.
Gibson J, 1979, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, Mifflin and Company, Houghton, 129–130.
Norman DA, 1988, The Psychology of Everyday Things, Basic Books, New York.
Wellman B, Quan-Haase A, Boase J, et al., 2003, The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 8(3): 834.
Bazarova NN, 2012, Public Intimacy: Disclosure Interpretation and Social Judgments on Facebook. Journal of Communication, 62(5): 815–832.
Hutchby I, Barnett S, 2005, Aspects of the Sequential Organization of Mobile Phone Conversation. Discourse Studies, 7(2): 147–171.
Hutchby I, 2014, Communicative Affordances and Participation Frameworks in Mediated Interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, (72): 86–89.
Schrock AR, 2015, Communicative Affordances of Mobile Media: Portability, Availability, Locatability, and Multimediality. International Journal of Communication, (9): 18.
Pan ZD, Liu Y, 2017, What is “New”? Power Entrapment and Theoretical Reflection in “New Media” Discourse: An Interview with Pan Zhongdang by Liu Yusei. Journalism and Communication Review, (01): 2–19.
Jing YX, Shen J, 2019, Introduction and Expansion of the Concept of New Media Affordance. Contemporary Communication, (01): 92–95.
Sun NX, Han S, 2020, “Affordance”: Translation, Transdisciplinary Use and Paradigm Shift. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication, 42(09): 122–141.
Yu GM, Zhao R, 2019, The Industrial Structure and Growth Space of “All-Media” from the Perspective of Media Affordance. Academia, (07): 37–44.
Zhang ZA, Huang JL, 2020, Research and Insights on Internet Platform Affordance from a Communication Perspective. News and Writing, (10): 87–95.
Liu DL, Tao YC, 2020, Paths for Mainstream Media to Deepen Digital Transformation from the Perspective of Affordance. View on Publishing, (19): 29–31.
Zhao YX, Zhu QH, 2013, Exploring the Moderating Effects of Perceived Affordance at Social Media Post-Adoption Stage. Journal of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information, 32(10): 1099–1111.
Chen QM, Bai RJ, Wang XY, 2021, Construction and Service Research of Smart Libraries Based on Perceived Affordance Theory. Research on Library Science, (13): 37–45.
Zhou B, 2020, Always Online, Permanently Connected: Lifestyle and Influencing Factors in the Mobile Internet Era. Journalism Research, (03): 84–106 + 120.
Wang Z, 2019, Research on the Service Marketing Strategy of University Library Under the Background of Media Integration. Library Work and Study, (12): 103–108.