Actors, whether individual or collective, whether human or not, are therefore a mystery whose constitution must be explained; they are not at all the obvious starting point of action. Those few premises have had a significant impact on some organizational communication scholars, in particular those...
Actor–network theory (ANT) began at the end of the 1970s as an attempt to account for scientific activity without distinguishing a priori between its so-called social and technical aspects. The concept of actor–network captures the idea that for any actor to act, many others must act as ...
Scholars in the field of science and technology proposed Actor-Network Theory in the 1980s to debunk claims that heroism or advanced innovation was responsible for the development of useful inventions. Instead, scientists stated that the process of scientific invention could be explained more accurately...
As the interviewee explained: “It's [the] same with open-source movements…people can be really fanatic about something, so if you support something, you are against something else.”(Blockchain developer) Bitcoin core developers were the focal actors in one of the proposed paths. Their ...
The ‘general symmetry’ principle explains that human and non-human actors involved in the network are equally important (McLean & Hassard, 2004), asserting that everything should be explained or described similarly (Law, 1994). The third principle, ‘free association’ claims that heterogeneous ...
It is not a theory of the social, but a theory of how to study the social, setapart by this specific definition of its object.Having explained his intentions in the Introduction, Latour demonstratesin Part I how to deploy controversies about the social world. What is taken forgranted is ...
explained that the Actor Network Theory looks at how the world of actors is constructed through the definition of the relationship between identity, role, characteristics, its reach and history. This construction can be detected throughout the translation process.Translation is the process when actors...
(2013) explained how sustained improvements occur not because of one central actor, but because of all those within the relevant network [120]. Change and improvement processes emerged, as personnel changes in clinical management [121], implementation of value-based healthcare [122], improvements ...
Fine, “What's Eating Actor-Network Theory?” mimeo, 2002. The current version has benefited considerably from the close attention of Alan Rudy. DOI: 10.1080/10455750500376057Ben Fine pages 91-108 Publishing models and article dates explained Published online: 08 Aug 2006 Article Views: 362 ...
To make our case, this article addresses the issue from the point of view of relativis- tic physics in the first place and then brings it to bear on actor-network theory. Accord- ingly, the second section will approach a processual interpretation of the theory of relativity. Here processes...