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| Issue Mapping× | Actor-Network Theory Analysis× | |
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| Field | Science Technology Studies | Science Technology Studies |
| Family | Process / pipeline | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 2015 | 1984 |
| Originator≠ | Noortje Marres, Richard Rogers | Bruno Latour, Michel Callon, John Law |
| Type≠ | Issue-centred digital research method | Material-semiotic theory and analytic method |
| Seminal source≠ | Rogers, R., Sánchez-Querubín, N., & Kil, A. (2015). Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN: 9789089647160 | Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780199256051 |
| Aliases | Issue cartography, Issue network mapping, Digital issue analysis | ANT analysis, Sociology of translation, Actant-network mapping |
| Related | 4 | 4 |
| Summary≠ | Issue mapping is an issue-centred digital research method that charts the actors, objects, and concerns gathered around a public issue—ageing, climate, vaccines, migration—using web and social-media data. Descended from controversy mapping but reoriented around the issue rather than a controversy or a pre-given social domain, it draws on Noortje Marres's pragmatist account of issue formation and the Amsterdam Digital Methods Initiative's repertoire to let the issue itself demarcate who and what counts. | Actor-Network Theory analysis treats society and technology as a single woven fabric, mapping how heterogeneous human and non-human actors—engineers, scallops, documents, machines, regulators—are linked into networks through a process of translation. Rather than explaining technical outcomes by appeal to pre-given social categories, ANT follows the actors themselves and describes how durable arrangements are assembled, stabilised, and sometimes undone. |
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