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Viljanen, Mika. "Actor-Network Theory Contract Theory." European Review of Contract Law 16, no. 1 (April 7, 2020): 74–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ercl-2020-0005.

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AbstractFirms increasingly use complex hybrid governance structures to manage value generation networks. Empirical evidence demonstrates that the structures contain soft, “enforcement-challenged” contractual devices. Existing contract theories, however, fail to recognize and explain how these soft contract devices work as legal devices. The article seeks to address this failure.The article uses a conceptual innovation by Schepker et al to construct an actor-network theory (ANT) inspired contract theory. Schepker et al argued that contracts are best understood as often concurrently serving safeguarding, coordination, and adaptation goals. The article argues that combined with ANT the functional contracting frame allows us to recognize that contracts work and gain efficacy in multiple ways. To understand how the soft, “enforcement-challenged” contract devices work, the article traces the efficacy mechanisms the devices perform and enact.The tracings lead the article to propose an ANT contract theory that builds on three intertwined ideas: 1) contract devices have no core efficacy networks but multiple parallel efficacies, 2) contracts should be understood as bricolage collages of small-scale contractual point intervention devices that each deploy and rely on their own efficacy mechanisms and patterns, and 3) the force of contract resides in the socio-material assemblages contracts are capable of creating and sustaining.

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Elder-Vass, Dave. "Disassembling Actor-network Theory." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 45, no. 1 (April 10, 2014): 100–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0048393114525858.

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Mifsud, Denise. "Actor-Network Theory (ANT)." International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation 6, no. 1 (January 2014): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijantti.2014010101.

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In this theoretical paper, the author provides a critical review of the Actor-Network Theory concept, while considering the relative under-utilization of Actor-Network Theory in education studies, tracing possible ways in which this theory can contribute as an analytical framework through its strands of ‘actor-network', ‘symmetry', ‘translation', and their constituents– thus facilitating its international growth. Two concepts this paper gives prominence to are networks and power relations. The author challenges the widespread conception of the ‘network' metaphor propagated by globalization discourses, contrasting it in turn with the network conception in Actor-Network Theory, where the main premise is multiplicity. The author explores Actor-Network Theory as a theory of the mechanics of power, concerning itself with the establishment of hegemony. This paper is especially aimed at those researchers of education reform who are as yet unfamiliar with Actor-Network Theory and somewhat sceptical of socio-material approaches, in order for them to realize its unrivalled potential contribution to their work.

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Davey, Bill, and Arthur Adamopoulos. "Grounded Theory and Actor-Network Theory." International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation 8, no. 1 (January 2016): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijantti.2016010102.

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This paper introduces a method of analyzing large text data in the context of an Actor-Network Theory based study. A case is used to illustrate conditions under which using an analytical technique from another philosophy seems particularly apt. A tool commonly used in Grounded Theory was applied in a manner aimed at facilitating a search for potential actors and their interactions and for evidence of specific translations of the innovation in the case used.

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Stark, David, John Law, and John Hassard. "Actor Network Theory and After." Contemporary Sociology 30, no. 1 (January 2001): 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2654376.

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Whittle, Andrea, and André Spicer. "Is Actor Network Theory Critique?" Organization Studies 29, no. 4 (April 2008): 611–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840607082223.

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Filipovic, Bozidar. "Bruno Latour and actor-network-theory." Filozofija i drustvo 23, no. 1 (2012): 129–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fid1201129f.

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This paper identifies the key moments in the development of Actor-Network-Theory through several important work by Bruno Latour. It is possible to discern a number of departures from the initial position of the author (articulated in Laboratory Life) in his latter works. Actor-Network-Theory is presented through a series of ?neuralgic? points inherent to and visible within the theory. The solutions which Actor-Network-Theory offers for fundamental problems of sociology, as defined by Latour, are discussed at the end of the paper.

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Pisarev, Alexander, Sergey Astakhov, and Stanislav Gavrilenko. "Actor-Network Theory: An Unfinished Assemblage." Philosophical Literary Journal Logos 27, no. 1 (2017): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/0869-5377-2017-1-1-34.

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Uden, Lorna, and Janet Francis. "Actor-Network Theory for Service Innovation." International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation 1, no. 1 (January 2009): 23–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jantti.2009010102.

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Bielenia-Grajewska, Magdalena. "Actor-Network Theory in Intercultural Communication." International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation 1, no. 4 (October 2009): 53–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jantti.2009062304.

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The aim of this article is to discuss the place of the Actor-Network Theory in intercultural communication. To narrow the scope of the research, the author concentrates on the role of participants in one type of intercultural exchange, namely in translation. Thus, such issues as translator(s), translation, languages, texts and units are given a detailed study in this article. An attempt will be made to show how ANT is useful in this area of cross-cultural communication. Hence, those taking part in the translation process, both human and nonhuman entities, are treated as an ecosystem, being a place for technological innovation.

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Elbanna, Amany R. "Actor-Network Theory in ICT Research." International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation 1, no. 3 (July 2009): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jantti.2009070101.

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Quinlan, Andrea. "Imagining a Feminist Actor-Network Theory." International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation 4, no. 2 (April 2012): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jantti.2012040101.

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Feminism and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have often been considered opposing theoretical and intellectual traditions. This paper imagines a meeting between these seemingly divergent fields and considers the theoretical and methodological challenges that ANT and feminism raise for one another. This paper examines an empirical project that calls for an engagement with both ANT and feminism. Through the lens of this empirical project, three methodological questions that an alliance between ANT and feminism would raise for any research project are considered: 1) Where does the analysis start? 2) What can be seen once the research has begun? 3) What about politics? The potential places where ANT and feminism can meet and mutually shape research on scientific practice and technological innovation are explored. In doing so, this paper moves toward an imagining of a feminist ANT.

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Orlova, Irina. "Actor-Network Theory and Social Practice." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya, no. 7 (July 2020): 128–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s013216250009372-2.

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Saito, Hiro. "Actor‐network theory of cosmopolitan education." Journal of Curriculum Studies 42, no. 3 (June 2010): 333–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220270903494261.

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Lindblad, Jenny. "Planning intersections with Actor Network Theory." disP - The Planning Review 53, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 118–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2017.1316587.

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Gershon, Ilana, and Joshua Malitsky. "Actor-network theory and documentary studies." Studies in Documentary Film 4, no. 1 (June 2010): 65–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/sdf.4.1.65_1.

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Saito, Hiro. "An Actor-Network Theory of Cosmopolitanism." Sociological Theory 29, no. 2 (June 2011): 124–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9558.2011.01390.x.

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Murdoch, Jonathan. "The spaces of actor-network theory." Geoforum 29, no. 4 (November 1998): 357–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7185(98)00011-6.

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Méndez-Fajardo, Sandra, and Rafael A. Gonzalez. "Actor-Network Theory on Waste Management." International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation 6, no. 4 (October 2014): 13–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijantti.2014100102.

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In developing countries, territorial planners are confronted with rapid urbanization and its inherent solid waste management (SWM) which has increased public health risks, and generated environmental and socio-economic problems too. To analyze these issues, a University campus (as a scaled city) was studied applying the Actor-Network Theory to find key elements to take into account for sustainable SWM programs not only in universities but also in cities. To achieve this goal, different actors and relationships between them were identified, as well as their dynamics throughout the SWM history. Some findings were that Environmental City's Authorities requirements have been the main cause of actions related to hazardous waste within the campus, while scholar's interests have initiated non-hazards. Otherwise, documents, operative committees, and scholars involved in milestones, have become as the main support for decision-makers. Researchers also verified that decision have not been made through systematic processes neither from a systems approach.

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Harman, Graham. "3D Printing and Actor-Network Theory." International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation 7, no. 1 (January 2015): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijantti.2015010101.

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Some futuristic technologies belong to a distant time that is hard for most to imagine in palpable terms. In the case of 3D printing, however, any citizen can easily grasp the stakes by simply watching a brief video (). The 3D printer, whose ancestry can be traced to factory innovations of the 1980s, provides a method of assembling objects piece by piece: a kind of less precise nanotechnology for the macro-level. Within a decade humans might be able to print functional body parts, bringing an end to the grisly waits for donated organs and the even more grisly international organ trafficking rings. Some believe that the “killer app” for 3D printing will be found in the printing of food, perhaps replacing single-site restaurants with a home library of Platonic forms of gourmet cuisine. Still others celebrate or fear the printing of assault rifles on a desktop, whether by right-wing citizens, convicted felons, or the mentally ill. One can expect the easy availability, in residential privacy, of all manner of benign and malignant objects, transforming economic structures, social life, and domestic security in roughly fifteen to twenty years.

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Callon, Michel. "Actor-Network Theory—The Market Test." Sociological Review 47, no. 1_suppl (May 1999): 181–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1999.tb03488.x.

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Callon, Michel. "Actor-Network Theory-The Market Test." Sociological Review 46, S (December 1998): 181–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.46.s.10.

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Allen, Casey D. "On Actor-Network Theory and landscape." Area 43, no. 3 (August 2, 2011): 274–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2011.01026.x.

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Park, Eun Ju. "Exploring the Possibility of Actor-Network Theory as an Educational Research Methodology." Korean Educational Research Association 61, no. 8 (December 31, 2023): 121–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.30916/kera.61.8.121.

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This study starts from the diagnosis that a new educational research methodology is essential in overcoming the deep-rooted conflicts in educational research, so as to flexibly cope with the rapidly changing times and respond to the ever-developing academic trends. Not only new phenomena that cannot be understood nor explained with the current existing frameworks but also transboundary and convergent events that demolish the modern dichotomous boundaries are frequently occupying the schools of this age. There is an urgent need for the introduction of even more detailed and diverse methodologies in order to capture these complex realities. This study will examine the various disciplinary possibilities of Latour’s ANT for overcoming the problems educational research has come to face and, in particular, will explore the possibilities of ANT’s educational research methodology. The expectations for this new ANT methodology include the improvement of educational practices by means of describing the educational reality that is coherent to the complex and transboundary educational phenomena and, consequently, its expected contribution to the new trends in academic progress.

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Mialet, Hélène. "A singularity: where actor network theory breaks down an actor network becomes visible." Subjectivity 10, no. 3 (June 21, 2017): 313–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41286-017-0030-1.

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Bajde, Domen. "Consumer culture theory (re)visits actor–network theory." Marketing Theory 13, no. 2 (March 5, 2013): 227–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470593113477887.

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Adamopoulos, Arthur, Martin Dick, and Bill Davey. "Actor-Network Theory and the Online Investor." International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation 4, no. 2 (April 2012): 25–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jantti.2012040103.

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An actor-network analysis of the way in which online investors use Internet-based services has revealed a phenomenon that is not commonly reported in actor-network theory research. An aspect of the research that emerged from interviews of a wide range of online investors is a peculiar effect of changes in non-human actors on the human actors. In this paper, the authors report on the particular case and postulate that this effect may be found, if looked for, in many other actor-network theory applications.

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Nurcholis, Luckfi. "Dimensi Ekologis Sedekah Laut: Analisis Teori Aktor-Jaringan (Actor Network Theory)." Bioma : Berkala Ilmiah Biologi 26, no. 1 (July 6, 2024): 59–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/bioma.2024.64181.

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Wilayah pesisir, khususnya di Indonesia, merupakan ekosistem penting yang mendukung keanekaragaman kehidupan laut dan menopang penghidupan jutaan orang. Di tengah meningkatnya tantangan lingkungan hidup, tradisi budaya Sedekah Laut, muncul sebagai sebuah lensa penting untuk memahami interaksi yang rumit antara manusia dan lingkungan pesisir. Makalah ini menggunakan teori aktor-jaringan (Actor Network Theory-ANT) untuk menyelidiki jaringan interaksi kompleks yang membentuk Sedekah Laut dan implikasi ekologisnya. Melalui penelitian etnografi di Desa Jetis, Kabupaten Cilacap, penelitian ini mengungkap beragam peran aktor manusia dan non-manusia dalam ekosistem pesisir. Mulai dari komunitas pesisir yang melakukan ritual untuk mengungkapkan rasa syukur kepada laut hingga pemimpin spiritual yang menjadi perantara antara praktik manusia dan kondisi lingkungan, setiap aktor berkontribusi pada pembentukan jaringan yang dinamis. Praktik Sedekah Laut tidak hanya memupuk identitas budaya dan kohesi masyarakat tetapi juga mendorong praktik penangkapan ikan berkelanjutan dan kepedulian terhadap lingkungan. Dengan mengintegrasikan keyakinan spiritual dan pengelolaan ekologi, Sedekah Laut mewujudkan pendekatan holistik terhadap konservasi pesisir, menyoroti keterkaitan sistem sosial, budaya, dan ekologi. Penelitian ini menggarisbawahi pentingnya mengenali dan memanfaatkan pengetahuan dan praktik tradisional dalam menjaga ekosistem pesisir untuk generasi mendatang.

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Park, Eun Ju. "Can Machine Be an Actor ? : Drawing upon the Actor-Network Theory by Bruno Latour." Korean Journal of Philosophy of Education 42, no. 4 (December 30, 2020): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.15754/jkpe.2020.42.4.001.

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Puteri, Bunga Pertiwi Tontowi. "Telaah Actor Network Theory dalam Kajian Sistem Pangan." Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Sosial 7, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 179. http://dx.doi.org/10.23887/jiis.v7i2.37075.

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Tujuan dari artikel ini adalah menelaah sejauh mana penggunaan Actor Network Theory dalam kajian sistem pangan. Fokus penelitian kajian sistem pangan dalam sosiologi mengalami perkembangan, salah satunya Actor Network Theory yang memiliki paradigma jaringan. Actor Network Theory dinilai dapat menggali kompleksitas dari sistem pangan dengan tawaran gagasannya yang dinilai cukup radikal bagi sosiologi. Metode yang digunakan adalah studi literatur dengan sumber utama berupa 12 artikel jurnal ilmiah tentang sistem pangan yang menggunakan analisis Actor Network Theory selama kurun waktu 5 tahun. Hasil telaah menunjukkan terdapat dua titik fokus pembahasan yang berbeda dalam kajian-kajian yang ada yaitu dinamika sistem pangan dan eksplorasi produk pangan, selain itu ditemukan potensi pengembangan kajian sistem pangan dengan pendekatan Actor Network Theory ke isu yang lebih luas seperti konsep agensi, keadilan pangan, keamanan pangan dan gerakan sosial.

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Callén, Blanca, Miquel Domènech, Daniel López, Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Tomás Sánchez-Criado, and Francisco Javier Tirado Serrano. "Diasporas and transitions in Actor-Network Theory." Athenea Digital. Revista de pensamiento e investigación social 11, no. 1 (March 3, 2011): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.852.

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Callén, Blanca, Miquel Domènech, Daniel López, Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Tomás Sánchez-Criado, and Francisco Javier Tirado Serrano. "Diasporas and transitions in Actor-Network Theory." Athenea Digital. Revista de pensamiento e investigación social 11, no. 1 (March 3, 2011): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenead/v11n1.852.

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Iyamu, Tiko, and Tefo Sekgweleo. "Information Systems and Actor-Network Theory Analysis." International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation 5, no. 3 (July 2013): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jantti.2013070101.

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Evidently, based on studies which have been conducted over the years, there exist lots more complexity than technical in the development and implementation of information systems in organisations. The complex issues are socio-technical in nature, which require a refresh examination, from social context, if different results are to be achieved. Some of the complexities which are encountered include operational issues, environmental trends, processes flow, communicative scheme, and actors’ relationship. The unpredictable nature of business and rapidly changing user requirements makes it even more difficult to develop and implement systems within budget and timeframe. Other challenges are within the social context, such as politics and culture affiliations. Through the lens of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) understanding of the social context of how information systems are developed and implemented is gained. Although ANT has been employed in many studies, it is of significant important to establishes and clarifies the factors, from the social perspective, which influences the development and implementation of information systems in organisations.

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Matthewman, Steve. "Michel Foucault, Technology, and Actor-Network Theory." Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 17, no. 2 (2013): 274–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/techne201311205.

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While Michel Foucault’s significance as a social theorist is undisputed, his importance as a technological theorist is frequently overlooked. This article considers the richness and the range of Foucault’s technological thinking by surveying his works and interviews, and by tracking his influence within Actor-Network Theory (ANT). The argument is made that we will not fully understand Foucault without understanding the central place of technology in his work, and that we will not understand ANT without understanding Foucault.

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Matthewman, Steve. "Michel Foucault, Technology, and Actor-Network Theory." Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 17, no. 2 (2013): 274–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/techne201317210.

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Sørensen. "THE PSYCHOLOGIST'S SHORTCUT TO ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY." American Journal of Psychology 126, no. 3 (2013): 369. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/amerjpsyc.126.3.0369.

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Schinkel, Willem. "Theory? Actor-network! Een waardering van ANT." Sociologie 10, no. 3 (September 1, 2014): 383–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/soc2014.3.schi.

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Bueger, Christian. "Actor-Network Theory, Methodology, and International Organization." International Political Sociology 7, no. 3 (September 2013): 338–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ips.12026_3.

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Fountain, Renee-Marie. "Socio-scientific issues via actor network theory." Journal of Curriculum Studies 31, no. 3 (May 1999): 339–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/002202799183160.

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Jensen, Tommy, and Johan Sandström. "Organizing rocks: Actor–network theory and space." Organization 27, no. 5 (April 26, 2019): 701–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508419842715.

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In an ethnography of the organizing of an underground mine, this article critically engages with actor–network theory’s theorizing of space, particularly the risk of drifting into spatial pluralism. Inspired by Annemarie Mol’s The Body Multiple, a space multiple approach is enrolled in which seemingly disparate enactments of the mining operations are understood in terms of coexistence and difference, inclusion and exclusion. Such an account attempts to cast aside a kind of neatness that jeopardizes the empirical openness that makes actor–network theory so fruitful to work with in organization studies dealing with spatial complexity.

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Born, Georgina, and Andrew Barry. "Music, Mediation Theories and Actor-Network Theory." Contemporary Music Review 37, no. 5-6 (November 2, 2018): 443–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2018.1578107.

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Harding, Alex. "Actor-Network-Theory and Micro-Learning Networks." Education for Primary Care 28, no. 5 (July 16, 2017): 295–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2017.1344882.

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Davenport, Elisabeth. "Book Review: Actor-network Theory and Organizing." Management Learning 37, no. 2 (June 2006): 248–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135050760603700208.

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Rodger, Kate, Susan A. Moore, and David Newsome. "WILDLIFE TOURISM, SCIENCE AND ACTOR NETWORK THEORY." Annals of Tourism Research 36, no. 4 (October 2009): 645–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2009.06.001.

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Wright, Steve. "Symposium 2: Actor-Network Theory Double-Symposium." Proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Learning 9 (April 7, 2014): 420–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.54337/nlc.v9.9036.

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This double-symposium assembles a group of people, papers and presentations both in the symposium room and connected to it via the Internet. Brought together we will use this time and space to explore the constellation of methods and philosophical approaches that have emerged from the field of science and technology studies as actor-network theory (ANT), material semiotics or the sociology of translation. The symposium comprises a collection of enactments of ANT in relation to prior research and live data from the 2014 conference. Brought together these offer insights for researching, theorising, interfering in and reconfiguring networked learning.ANT’s origins are in ethnographic studies of scientific practices where it was “developed to analyse situations in which it is difficult to separate humans and non-humans, and in which the actors have variable forms and competencies” (Callon, 1998, p. 183). Whilst we have traced origins we have done little thus far to introduce what ANT “is”. That sentence itself poses a challenge, positioning ANT as an it: a singularity. Those familiar with ANT will be well aware of the debates and publications concerned with what ANT is and isn’t (for concise introductions see (Law, 2008; Mol, 2010)) and its intellectual antecedents including Garfinkel’s ethnomethodology and the semiotics of Greimas. We draw attention to Mol’s (2010) term “ANT-tradition” in her account of the sensitive terms and enduring tensions in this enterprise. From here on, we will use the acronym ANT as a convenient shorthand to gesture to the ANT-tradition which Mol articulates thus: the terms “actor”, “network”, “theory”, as well as the terms “order” and “coordination”, will be explored. But mind you, ANT does not define these terms, but rather plays with them. It does not seek coherence. It does not build a stronghold. Instead of crafting an overall scheme that becomes more and more solid as it gets more and more refined, ANT texts are out to move – to generate, to transform, to translate. To enrich. And to betray. (p. 253) This double-symposium offers enactments of ANT and enactments of networked learning in which the inseparability of humans and non-humans are brought to the fore. The symposium is also an experiment, an interfering in what might be regarded as a typical symposium: a collection of papers written around a particular theme. It might be argued that some, perhaps much, work in the ANT-tradition can be regarded as both playful and improvisational in interfering with well-established practices and structures. In this spirit, we seek in this symposium at this conference to place ANT in dialogue with other frameworks in networked learning such as community of Practice Theory (COP) and Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and to speak truth to acronyms by representing this as an ANT having a CHAT with a COP. More seriously, how best do we convey something of ANT that is both useful to those unsure of its ideas and useful for people trying to plan their conference schedule? In what follows we first try and give a taste of a little what ANT does as an approach and some of its concerns and interests, then introduce the elements of the symposium where we will materialise the taster - through tasting. If you are reading this then there is a fair chance you submitted a paper for the conference. In doing so you would have encountered the templates for submissions. That document tightly controlled how papers were formatted: the fonts used, margins and spacing and other things that you can do with text and how to format references to other research artefacts. The templates also act to stop you from doing some things, including exactly what we are doing here: using a different font, different margins with a different justification (bad pun intended). ANT explores the ways non-human objects interact with humans and are delegated this kind of power and control: this agency. The template is the conference standards made durable and enforced at a distance. The rules are translated into a different format: rather than just being words and instructions they are now word processor styles and restrictions. Approaches informed by ANT look closely at how these create and affect practices, how assemblages of non-human actors, or “actants” (here: words, templates, formatting rules) come together with human actants in order to flatten such distinctions and enable symmetrical considerations of the way agencies operate to assemble actor-networks and how these become stable or fall apart. ANT is interested in practices, in how they enact different realities: here the conference is enacted as a set of rules for formatting and presenting research through words and standards. In our symposium, ANT is enacted multiply, as is networked learning, as is a symposium. So back to this text which is creating a putative reality (Law, 2012) about a symposium that relies on my writing practices and your reading practices. So why am I writing this in a different format? ANT borrows heavily from its intellectual antecedent ethnomethodology. By breaching this template, by breaking rules that were made absent by a template these are exposed and made present. However, this breaching is done within and by using the methods of the phenomena under study: changing the formatting to show its agency rather than writing about it from a critical position above or outside of this phenomenon. A guiding principle for this symposium has been to ask all the contributors to consider and engage with the medium of dissemination and to consider ways to “speak truth to materials”, a sentiment expressed by Guggenheim (2011) who argues that “much STS continues to work with writing as a single medium ... with regard to the media and translation techniques that scholars use .. to document and display what they have found out, the sociology of translation, as sociology in general is an impoverished science” (p.66). The papers collected here are arguably representations of this impoverishment, however the symposium enables different enactments. We therefore stay true to the original meaning of the word "symposium" from the Greek συμπόσιον coming together to talk, think and drink. What follows is a plan which, as Suchman (1987) powerfully reminds us, is not the way situated actions will be. However we hope it will help those seeking to navigate the conference, though wayfaring may take over once engaged in the symposium.

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Jørgensen, Matias Thuen. "Reframing tourism distribution - Activity Theory and Actor-Network Theory." Tourism Management 62 (October 2017): 312–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2017.05.007.

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Czarniawska, Barbara. "Book Review: Organizing Networks: An Actor-Network Theory of Organizations and Actor-Network Theory: Trials, Trails and Translations." Organization Studies 38, no. 10 (October 2017): 1483–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840617721670.

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Lee, Boa. "A Study on the Promotion of Public Design Using ANT (Actor-Network Theory) Media." urban design journal 5, no. 2 (June 30, 2023): 3–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.69913/udj.2023.06.5.2.3.

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Lee, Boa. "A Study on the Promotion of Public Design Using ANT (Actor-Network Theory) Media." urban design journal 5, no. 1 (June 30, 2023): 3–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.69913/udj.2023.06.5.1.3.

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LOURENÇO, Ramon Fernandes, and Maria Inês TOMAÉL. "Actor-network Theory and cartography of controversies in Information Science." Transinformação 30, no. 1 (April 2018): 121–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2318-08892018000100010.

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Abstract The present study aims to discuss the interactions between the Actor-network Theory and the Cartography of Controversies method in Information Science research. A literature review was conducted on books, scholarly articles, and any other sources addressing the Theory-Actor Network and Cartography of Controversies. The understanding of the theoretical assumptions that guide the Network-Actor Theory allows examining important aspects to Information Science research, seeking to identify the relationships between information, people, and technological equipment in the structure of information flows that create intricate information sharing networks. This interaction between the Actor-network theory and Information Science highlights the role of the research method Cartography of Controversies as an approach that results from the use of the Actor-network theory to investigate the creation of sociotechnical networks.

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