Theorizing technology and behavior: Introduction to special issue

What is “behavior”? What is “technology”? What is the relation between behavior and technology? In an effort to address these fundamental questions and provide the field with a more solid and coherent theoretical foundation, we assembled a special issue wherein scholars from various academic fields (psychology, economy, communication, science education, learning sciences, and anthropology) theorize what it means to “behave with a technology.” We begin by presenting the literature that sparked these questions and inspired us to take strides in this theoretical direction. The editorial then ends with a description of how this special issue is organized and an overview of the set of papers that compose it.