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Médialab stories: How to align actor network theory and digital methods

Big Data & Society, 2018
The history of laboratories may become controversial in social sciences. In this paper, the story of Sciences Po Médialab told by Venturini et al.
Dominique Boullier
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Semantic portals from sociothecnical perspective of the actor-network theory

Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação, 2023
Semantic portals, such as socio-technical artifacts, involve different actors that are aligned to offer communication and information search services more quickly and accurately.
Josefina Aparecida Soares Guedes, Rita de Cássia Fonseca, Faimara do Rocio Strauhs   +2 more
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Misalignment of interest: An actor-network analysis of a government budgeting practice

Asian Journal of Accounting Perspectives, 2021
Research aim: This paper aims at finding an explanation as to why a government budget operates as a ritual, as has been observed in the Sri Lankan Government budgeting practice and many Less Developed Country (LDC) accounting studies. Design/ Methodology/
Chandrasiri Abeysinghe
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Actor-Network Theory and its role in understanding the implementation of information technology developments in healthcare

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2010
Background Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is an increasingly influential, but still deeply contested, approach to understand humans and their interactions with inanimate objects.
Sheikh Aziz, Worth Allison, Cresswell Kathrin M   +2 more
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Writing Nature

Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 2016
This special issue of the Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies is interested in how nature, in different versions and forms, is invited into our studies, analyses, and stories. How is it that we “write nature”? How is it that we provide space
Kristin Asdal, Gro Birgit Ween
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Actor-network Theory and cartography of controversies in Information Science

Transinformação
The present study aims to discuss the interactions between the Actor-network Theory and the Cartography of Controversies method in Information Science research.
Ramon Fernandes LOURENÇO, Maria Inês TOMAÉL   +1 more
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Embedding the “Black Box”: A reformulated social capital theory for the exploration of socio-physical linkages

Cogent Social Sciences, 2015
This article contends that many critics of social capital have failed to note a gradual but significant evolution taking place at the fringes of the theory.
Laurie Parsons
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Actor-network theory-based applications in sustainability: A systematic literature review

Cleaner Production Letters
Sustainability is a multifaceted endeavor that underscores the interdependence between society and nature. Its complexity arises from a delicate balance among four sustainability dimensions: economic, environmental, social, and durational. Achieving this
Kadia Georges Aka
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Tourism Space Through the Lens of Actor-Network Theory [PDF]

International Journal of Tourism, Culture and Spirituality
In the philosophy of science and especially in the humanities, the definition and recognition of the studied concepts and subjects can have a different or even contradictory ontological, epistemological and methodological basis.
Ahmad Hajarian
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A ciência como rede de atores: ressonâncias filosóficas Science as a network of actors: philosophical resonance

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2004
O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as conseqüências filosóficas da teoria ator-rede para os estudos acerca das ciências. Esta teoria tem renovado o debate em torno das ciências, por enfatizar a investigação da ciência em ação, isto é, tal como ela é ...
Marcia Moraes
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