Resumen

The aim of this article is to analyze possible influences of the internet on mathematics online distance education and to discuss the interrelationships between the human and non-human actors involved. To do so, we analyzed empirical data produced in a mathematics education course for teachers. The discussion is based on the approach of Activity Theory and on the construct humans-with-media. As an analysis tool, we used the notion of mini-cyclones of expansive transformation. The results indicated that the activity of “doing math online” developed two roles for the internet: artifact and community. This double role contributed to the transformation of the basis of the activity and leveraged distinct movements. In addition, we found that human and non-human actors interacted in such a way that both were able to play identical roles in an activity system.