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Actor-Network Theory Analysis

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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Actor-Network Theory (ANT) Analysis of Sociotechnical Assemblages
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / science-technology-studies
  • Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford University Press. · ISBN 9780199256051
  • Callon, M. (1984). Some elements of a sociology of translation: domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay. The Sociological Review, 32(1_suppl), 196-233. · DOI 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1984.tb00113.x
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