Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

By B. Latour. 2005

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Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems (2019, background): “If the Framing Trap is the result of choosing only certain technical parts of the system to model and manage, a more effective way forward is to consider both human activities and machine ones at the same time [49].”
Toward an Anthropology of Computer-Mediated, Algorithmic Forms of Sociality (2013, background): “Rather, technologies prescribe back to humans, who must learn to operatethem, and to social practices that must be organized around these prescriptions (Latour 2005).”
Greening global consumption: Redefining politics and authority (2008, background): “In the final, Actor Network Theory (ANT) rooted (Latour, 2005) perspective, the notion of context or infrastructures determining human agents is further radicalised.”
The "Triple Depreciation Line" instead of the "Triple Bottom Line": Towards a genuine integrated reporting (2015, background): “Thus we can claim that lands acquired a genuine statute of capital when they became matters of concerns (Latour 2005).”
Consumer and Object Experience in the Internet of Things: An Assemblage Theory Approach (2018, background): “In the past few years, concepts from various approaches to assemblage theory and actor-network theory (Latour 2005), the “empirical sister-in-arms” to assemblage theory (Mu¨ller 2015, 30), have been applied to an increasingly broad range of consumption, consumer culture, and marketing topics…”
Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory (2011, background): “Later, I incorporated some of Latour’s ideas (Latour, 1986, 2005; Sevon, 1996), or my interpretation of these ideas.”
Putting words in their mouths: The alignment of identities with system goals through the use of Individual Learning Plans (2009, background): “[LaTour, 2005:114] [INSERT Figure 1: The ILP as the heart of the Teaching and Learning Process] Whilst practitioners acknowledge the value of ILPs for record-keeping purposes and for legitimising discussion time between students and tutors, they identify problems with them as well (see for example…”
Visualization of interfirm relations in a converging mobile ecosystem (2008, background): “…(Eisenhardt and Schoonhoven, 1996; Das et al., 1998), stakeholder theory of the firm (Jarillo, 1988), agency theory (Eisenhardt, 1989), organizational learning (Hamel, 1991; Gulati and Gargiulo, 1999), actor-network theory, (Latour, 2005) and institutional theory (Galaskiewicz and Wasserman, 1989).”
Are we making a better world with ICTs? Reflections on a future agenda for the IS field (2012, background): “I have considerable sympathy with this more holistic view of technology’s links to the broader world, one important strand of which is actor network theory (e.g., Latour, 2005) which views technology as only one of the actants in a wider network of changing connections.”
Policy Strategies to Promote Eco-Innovation - An Integrated Framework (2010, background): “of different actors is the sociological approach of network-actor theory (Callon 1995; Latour 2005).”