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

By Bruno 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].”
Computing in Everyday Life: A Call for Research on Experiential Computing (2010, background): “This calls for a different form of scholarship (Dahlbom 2002; Flyvbjerg 2001; Latour 2005; Van De Ven 2007).”
The uselessness of AI ethics (2022, background): “The development and adoption of technology is always highly social and cultural [27], embedded within a rich network of human and non-human actors [38].”
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.”
When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies: Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies (2011, unknown): “Rather, each contributes equally to shaping the other, and people and technologies are recursively implicated as they use each other to build associations (Latour 2005).”
Actor-Network Theory and its role in understanding the implementation of information technology developments in healthcare (2010, background): “Intermediaries and mediators can form relationships between actors [18,25,26].”
Toward a Theory of Coordinating: Creating Coordinating Mechanisms in Practice (2012, unknown): “Such ostensive patterns may appear to be explanations (Latour, 1986, 2005).”
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.”
What is an Information System? (2015, background): “Useful ideas in this direction may be drawn from science and technology studies [10; 16], actor network theory [49; 50] or the mangle or practice [76].”
Materials and devices of the public: an introduction (2011, background): “…governmentalities, the ‘tiny, everyday, physical mechanisms of micro-power’ that organize political subjectivity (Foucault, 1991 [1975]; see Barry, Osborne & Rose, 1996; Miller & Rose, 2008; Osborne & Rose, 1999; also Anderson, 1991 [1988]; Ezrahi, 1990; Latour, 2005b; Law 1986; Mukerji, 2009).”
How to improve firm performance using big data analytics capability and business strategy alignment (2016, methodology): “Entanglement view using sociomaterialism (Latour, 2005; Orlikowski, 2007; Orlikowski and Scott, 2008; Stein et al., 2014) The relationship between human and material agencies is inseparable and inextricably interlinked.”
Narrative Networks: Patterns of Technology and Organization (2007, background): “…theory of technology and organization, the narrative network offers a methodology that builds on insights from existing perspectives, such as structuration (Orlikowski 2000), actor-network theory (ANT) (Law 1992, Latour 2005), and the theory of organizational routines (Feldman and Pentland 2003).”
Understanding the Role of Objects in Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration (2012, background): “This material object operated as an intermediary which translated and aligned different interests (Latour, 2005).”
Alternative and Activist New Media (2011, unknown): “6 Actor- network theory, which attributes agency to both people and technological systems enmeshed in complex networks of relations, is another important example of this type of theory (see Latour, 2005; Law & Hassard, 1999).”
Validity Issues in the Use of Social Network Analysis with Digital Trace Data (2011, unknown): “Related forms of network analysis, such as Dynamic Network Analysis (Krackhardt & 1 “Old Wikipedia backups Discovered” http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2010-December/001282.html 2 http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/16511#comment:1 776 Journal of the Association f”
Actor Networks, Modes of Production, and Waste Regimes: Reassembling the Macro-Social (2010, background): “Latour and other key theoretical proponents of ANT of course would disagree with this and point out that their goal has been to transcend the micro ^macro dichotomy (Latour, 2005).”
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).”