Actor-network theory and material semiotics
By John Law. 2009
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Subfields: History and Philosophy of Science, Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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- "That Sounds So Cooool": Entanglements of Children, Digital Tools, and Literacy Practices (2015, background): “John Law (2007) described ANT as a “disparate family of material-semiotic tools, sensibilities and methods of analysis” (p. 1), which he claimed was, despite its name, not a theory (a strong account of why something happened) but a “toolkit for telling interesting stories about, and intervening in”…”
- Exploring customers' responses to online service failure and recovery strategies during Covid‐19 pandemic: An actor–network theory perspective (2021, background): “In addition, ANT emphasizes that the human actor is the dominant factor in network relationships (Somerville, 1999) and perceives human beings and objects as entities (John, 2009) that influence others.”
- A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations (2020, background): “…2003b; Murdoch 2006; Jones 2009), sociology (Emirbayer 1997; DeLanda 2006; Dépelteau 2018), science and technology studies (Latour 1993, 2005; Law 2007), psychology (Hartig 1993; Mitchell and Aron 1999; Clarke et al. 2007), policy studies and public administration (Cook and Wagenaar 2012;…”
- Actor Networks, Modes of Production, and Waste Regimes: Reassembling the Macro-Social (2010, background): “For example, explaining the historical inequality of the West and the Rest, Latour and Law see the West's superiority in its practice of having `̀ accumulated a series of small and practical techniques that generate cumulative advantage'' (Law, 2007).”
- The Sociomaterialty of Information Systems: Current Status, Future Directions (2014, background): “ANT, which originated within science and technology studies (Callon 1986a, 1986b, 1999; Hanseth and Monteiro 1997; Latour 2005; Law 2004, 2008a, 2008b; Mitev and Howcroft 2011; Mol 1999, 2002), is another important intellectual tradition in the development of sociomaterial thinking.”
- From leadership-as-practice to leaderful practice (2011, background): “Rather, language and its ancillary semiotic manifestations would be viewed as the embodiment of these practices to shed light on the actual workings of practice (Law, 2009; Mulcahy and Perillo, 2011).”
- Affective assemblages: body matters in the pedagogic practices of contemporary school classrooms (2012, background): “Drawing on actor-network theory (Latour 2005; Law 2009a) in which assemblage and emergence are key metaphors (Edwards 2010), and taking seriously its idea that material objects, like human subjects, can take different forms in different places and practices, I ask the seemingly simple question:…”
- Ecosystem services as technology of globalization: On articulating values in urban nature (2013, methodology): “Here we drew upon actor-network theory (Latour, 1987; Latour, 2005; Law, 2003, 2009) that can effectively be used to understand how the ESS approach, and other technologies of globalization in the environmental realm, are integrated into a “ new global knowledge ” (Monfreda, 2010) that manufactures…”