Science in action : how to follow scientists and engineers through society

By Bruno Latour. 1989

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Measuring the Evolution of a Scientific Field through Citation Frames (2018, background): “Authors use citations to frame their contributions and connect to an intellectual lineage (Latour, 1987).”
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Prominent but Less Productive (2015, background): “They may think of it highly or dismiss it as flawed (Ferber, 1986; Latour, 1987; Najman and Hewitt, 2003; Lynn, 2014).”
Cultural-economy and cities (2007, background): “It has a distinctiveness, though, which lies in revealing how not only contemporary ‘knowledge capitalism’ but also capitalism in general is powered by situated practices of innovation and learning based on how networks of bodies, brains, and things are aligned, held together, and made to count (Lat”
Tracing the Everyday 'Sitings' of Adolescents on the Internet: a strategic adaptation of ethnography across online and offline spaces (2003, background): “First, as with a range of other spatial theorists, Latour does not interpret time and space as independent, a frame in which things move, but as the result of the interaction among things (Latour, 1987).”
A Core/Periphery Perspective on Individual Creative Performance: Social Networks and Cinematic Achievements in the Hollywood Film Industry (2008, background): “Latour (1987) , for instance, noted that professional assessments of scientific work are influenced by the prominence of the scientist’s affiliates, particularly in uncertain research areas where there is disagreement over what constitutes a significant contribution.”
From social control to financial economics: the linked ecologies of economics and business in twentieth century America (2009, background): “…by people seeking to establish their authority through the development or reorganization of institutions — in that sense, it is an “ enrollment ” process (Latour 1987) of sorts, whereby institutions are mobilized and transformed in an effort to assert one ’ s position vis-à-vis relevant audiences…”
The roles and effects of paradigms in accounting research (2010, background): “Postmodernists questioned the objectivity of cience, leading to a huge variety of critiques on scienific knowledge and method in a number of disciplines, nd especially in studies of science and technology (e.g., atour and Woolgar, 1979; Latour, 1987).”