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Exploring temporary urban interventions through user activities: a case study of Abdali Boulevard, Amman, Jordan

Frontiers in Built Environment, 2023
Introduction: Urban studies have examined the potential of urban interventions to upgrade spaces. This is the focus of relational approaches that emphasize interactions between interventions and users.
Ahlam Ammar Sharif
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Informaatiokäytäntöjen tutkimuksen teoreettisia ja metodologisia mahdollisuuksia

Informaatiotutkimus, 2019
In this article I ponder how the actor-network theory and the practice-based studies can be applied in information practices research. The history of the actor-network theory goes back to the 1970s and 1980s and is linked to sociology as well as science ...
Jaakko Louhivuori
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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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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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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 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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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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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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