Machines and machinations: The integrated care record service in the UK national health service [PDF]
, 2005 This paper examines the use of Actor Network Theory (ANT) as a lens to get a better understanding of the implementation of the Integrated Care Record Service (ICRS) in the UK National Health Service (NHS).
Atkinson, C +3 more
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Narrating the Natural History Unit: institutional orderings and spatial strategies [PDF]
, 2000 This paper develops a conceptualisation of institutional geographies through participation observation and interviews in the BBC's Natural History Unit (NHU), and the approach of actor network theory.
Davies, G
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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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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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Restoring balance : how history tilts the scales against privacy : an actor-network theory investigation. [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper we problematize the metaphor of balance employed in the area of information privacy. Using Actor-Network Theory we conduct an historical investigation into the continuous release of the same personal data over the course of eight decades ...
Bonner, Bill +2 more
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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 +2 more
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Actor-relational planning in deprived areas : challenges and opportunities in luchtbal Antwerpen, Belgium [PDF]
, 2015 In this article we report and discuss our experience with actor relational approaches in the regeneration of a post war housing estate in Luchtbal, Antwerp, Belgium.
Boelens, Luuk, Coppens, Tom
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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 +2 more
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Globalising assessment: an ethnography of literacy assessment, camels and fast food in the Mongolian Gobi [PDF]
, 2014 What happens when standardised literacy assessments travel globally? The paper presents an ethnographic account of adult literacy assessment events in rural Mongolia.
Bernstein B +17 more
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