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8. Media as Lived Environments: The Ecological Psychology of Educational Technology
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Overview
8.1 Overview
8.2 Background
8.3 Natural and Cultural Dynamics of Information and Media Technologies
8.4 A Multiplicity of Media
8.5 An Ecology of Perception and Action
8.6 Ecological Vs. Empirical Approaches
8.7 Indirect Perception, Mediated Perception, and Distributed Cognition
8.8 An Ecological Approach to Understanding Media
8.9 Media as Arenas for Unified Perception and Action
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