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There are 4 things wrong with the Actor – Network Theory:
The word ‘actor’The word ‘network’The word ‘theory’ and theHyphen”
Bruno Latour, one of the pioneers of the Actor – Network Theory
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ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY
Society is a network, made up of more – or – less stable assemblages
Michel Callon
John Law
Bruno Latour
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EMPHASIS
Explaining how something did or did not come into being
Descriptions of events in flux
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THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Technology
People
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ACTORS AND NETWORKSymmetrically studies all actors, meaning that both human and non-human actors are treated in the same manner and seen as capable of enacting change
Actors
Actants
Heterogeneous set of connections and relationships, that are the product of successful translations
“a series of transformations - translations, transductions - which could not be captured by any of the traditional terms of social theory”
WORK-NET
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EXAMPLE
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THE BASIC “UNCERTAINTIES” “Types of controversies, about what this universe is made of”
No group, only group formation
Action is overtaken
Objects too have agency
Matters of fact vs.
Matters of concern
Writing down risky accounts
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FAROE ISLANDS CASE STUDY 48,000 inhabitants 3 hospitals 27 general practitioners (GPs) 2005: Healthcare Information
System Technology competence: scarce
resource Workforce, IHIS, groups Wards of the national hospital Stability Early 2007: IHIS in National
Hospital Project Management Focus
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AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY OF HEALTHCARE IN THE FAROE ISLANDS Actors and Networks Phases of the Project Stages of Translation
› Problematization› Interessement› Enrollment› Mobilization
Result Technology
Hospitals
GPs ProjectManager
PatientsGroup
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MORE RESOURCESVideo presenting the theory in a very clear way Actor Network Theory in plain English
Research article Rhodes, J. (2009), “Using Actor-Network Theory to Trace an ICT (Telecenter)Implementation Trajectory in an African Women’s Micro-Enterprise Development Organization, USC Annenberg School for Communication, Vol. 5, Number 3
Jessen, J. & Jessen, C. (2014), “What games do: Interaction, Design, and Actor Network Theory”, International conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions Chowburry, S. “Co-creation of Innovative Digital
Services”, Halmstad University, Sweden Cordella, A. & Shaikh, M. (2003), “Actor Network Theory and After: What’s New For IS Research?”, AISeL