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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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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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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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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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Archives of Design Research, 2020 Background Concern with the social dimension emerges when design is seen as an interactive process beyond activities to result in products. Actually, design is socio-technical process: designers use and result technical objects when they interact with ...
A. S. Ekomadyo, Andhika Riyadi
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Organizing rocks: Actor–network theory and space
Organization, 2020 In an ethnography of the organizing of an underground mine, this article critically engages with actor–network theory’s theorizing of space, particularly the risk of drifting into spatial pluralism.
Tommy Jensen, J. Sandström
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Ontological Pluralism, Modes of Existence, and Actor-Network Theory: Upgrading Latour with Latour
Social Epistemology, 2020 Bruno Latour, one of the architects of actor-network theory, has now enfolded this approach within a larger project: An Inquiry into Modes of Existence.
Jonathan Tummons
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Understanding Strategy For E-Government Development Using Actor-Network Theory [PDF]
, 2012 The potential benefits of e-government are not easily manifested due to its high implementation failures. These failures partly come from inappropriate assumptions used to conceptualize its nature and implement it as a socio-technical entity.
Johanes Eka, Priyatma
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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 Strategy as Practice
, 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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