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Actor-network theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Actor–network theory (ANT) is an approach to research that sits with a broader body of new materialism; a body of work that displaces humanism to consider dynamic assemblages of humans and nonhumans. Originally developed in the social studies of science and technology undertaken in the second half of the 20th century, ANT has increasingly been taken up
Dave Elder-Vass (1252800)
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Actor-network theory and ethnography: Sociomaterial approaches to researching medical education. [PDF]

open access: yesPerspect Med Educ, 2019
Actor-network theory and ethnography: Sociomaterial approaches to researching medical ...
MacLeod A   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Actor Network Theory and Sensing Governance: From Causation to Correlation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This article is organised in four sections. The first section introduces sensing governance in terms of the governance of effects rather than causation, focusing on the work of Bruno Latour in establishing the problematic of contingent interaction ...
Chandler, D.
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Médialab stories: How to align actor network theory and digital methods

open access: yesBig 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
doaj   +1 more source

Semantic portals from sociothecnical perspective of the actor-network theory

open access: yesPerspectivas 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   +2 more
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Misalignment of interest: An actor-network analysis of a government budgeting practice

open access: yesAsian 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
doaj   +5 more sources

Actor-Network Theory and its role in understanding the implementation of information technology developments in healthcare

open access: yesBMC 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Learning to build sustainable communities: an interdependency network perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper explores the production of sustainable communities from an interdependency network perspective (Newton, 2001). Drawing on fieldwork that examined how planners worked collaboratively with other professionals to address the challenges of ...
Lever, John   +3 more
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Writing Nature

open access: yesNordic 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 Strategy as Practice

open access: yes, 2015
Christopher Chapman, Wai-Fong Chua and Habib Mahama discuss the varieties of points of contact between Actor–Network theory and strategy as practice research. They review the origins of Actor–Network theory and discuss three of its foundational principles: generalized symmetry, recursivity and radical indeterminacy.
Chapman, Christopher S.   +2 more
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