HUMANS-WITH-INTERNET OR INTERNET-WITH-HUMANS: AN EXCHANGE OF FUNCTION?

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze possible influences of internet on mathematics online distance production and discuss the interrelationships between human and non-human actors involved in this production. To this end, we analyze of empirical data produced in a Mathematical education course for teachers. The discussion is based on an approach of the theory of activity and on construct humans-with-media. As analysis tool we use the notion of expansive transformation miniciclones. The results indicated that the activity constituted during the doing math online the internet played two roles: artifact and community. This double performance contributed to the transformation of the grounds of the activity and also leveraged distinct movements. Also we find that human and non-human actors interrelate in such a way that both can play the same roles in a system of activity.