Actor Network Theory, globalised assemblages and the impact of oil on agriculture and industry in Ghana

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 462-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pius Siakwah
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The Managing of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Technologies’ Network Effect: An Adaptation of Actor-Network Theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Kobra Elahifar
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
File Sharing ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Network Effect ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
P2p File Sharing ◽  
The Impact

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing technologies have impacted the music industry, including its strategies for the distribution of the musical products, for more than a decade now. As a result, music labels have delayed full digitization of their industry in fear of “online music piracy”. The present paper reviews the historical context of the evolution of the music industry from 1999 to 2012. Using Actor-Network theory, the paper examines the strategies that helped the music industry to translate new actors’ effect in order to sustain music labels’ business on their path to digitize music distribution. I will discuss the impact of new digital policies and methods of governing online behavior including the business concept of “entrepreneurship” as they may potentially affect the future of public domain within the framework of consumer rights.

The Impact of Network of Actors on the Information Technology

2011 ◽  
pp. 234-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiko Iyamu ◽  
Arthur Tatnall
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
It Strategy ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Computing Environment ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
The Impact

Organisations’ reliance on Information Technology (IT) is rapidly increasing. IT strategy is developed and implemented for particular purposes by different organizations. We should therefore expect that there will be network of actors within the computing environment, and that such network of actors will be the key to understanding many otherwise unexpected situations during the development and implementation of IT strategy. This network of actors has aligned interests. Many organizations are developing and implementing their IT strategy, while little is known about the network of actors and their impacts, which this paper reveals. This paper describes how Actor-Network Theory (ANT) was employed to investigate the impact of network of actors on the development and implementation of IT strategy in an organisation. ANT was used as it can provide a useful perspective on the importance of relationships between both human and non-human actors. Another example: design and implementation of a B-B web portal, is offered for comparison.

An Actor-Network Analysis of a Case of Development and Implementation of IT Strategy

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 35-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiko Iyamu ◽  
Arthur Tatnall
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
It Strategy ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Technical Factors ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
The Impact

Increasingly, many organizations are highly dependent on support from Information Technology (IT). Even though Carr has controversially argued that IT does not matter, there seems to be prima facie evidence that even the most ambitious business vision still needs IT to enable it. As such, there has been much focus and emphasis on technologies, and less attention on non-technical components in the development and implementation of IT strategy. This study is focused on the connection between the technical and nontechnical, including the relationships between actors in the development and implementation of IT strategy. This article describes how Actor-Network Theory (ANT) was employed to investigate the impact of non-technical factors on the development and implementation of IT strategy in an organization. ANT was used as it can provide a useful perspective on the importance of relationships between both human and non-human actors. Another example: design and implementation of a B-B web portal, is offered for comparison.

Under surveillance: An actor network theory ethnography of users’ experiences of electronic monitoring

2019 ◽  
pp. 147737081988289
Author(s):  
Carl R. Berry
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Electronic Monitoring ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Mass Surveillance ◽  
Monitor And Control

Electronic monitoring (EM) tags are a punishment that utilizes surveillance to enforce curfews. This capacity has drawn debate as to whether it simply enforces the penalty or exists as a punishment itself. However, little empirical work has been conducted on users regarding the experience. The encroaching presence of mass surveillance has also been increasingly debated within criminology, amidst concerns concerning the capabilities of technologies to monitor and control citizens. This article will explore the impact of surveillance as a specific feature of EM to investigate how being monitored is experienced by users during sentences. It will principally draw upon the ethnographic approach of actor network theory – which argues that humans and non-human technologies ‘relationally’ coexist with each other – to explore this phenomenon.

Distance, Climate, Demographics and the Development of Online Courses in Newfoundland and Labrador

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Scott Reid
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

One of the assertions of the Actor-Network Theory is that physical factors can be actors within a network of other factors which determine the development and use of technology. This paper documents the impact of climate, distance and demographics on the adoption of online courses at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. The qualitative study demonstrates that these physical factors did influence professor’s decisions to use online courses. The findings support the Actor-Network Theory and provide insight into the interaction of physical and human actors within a network that facilitated the adoption of online courses at the university being studied.

A Strategic Framework for Rural Micro-Enterprise Development: The Integration of Information Communication Technology (ICT), E-Commerce, Marketing, and Actor-Network Theory

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
Marketing Principles ◽  
The Impact

AbstractUsing a contextualist, interpretivist research method anchored in a South African rural women's organization, this paper contributes to the discourse on ICT-enabled rural microeconomic development. A conceptual framework, encapsulating rural socioeconomic development, ICTs (e-commerce through a government-sponsored telecentre), and marketing (as a particular business process) is probed using an in-situ participative action research project in cooperation with the organization's management team; and analyzed through Actor-Network Theory. The results reveal key barriers experienced by a rural development organization exploring ICT-enabled migration paths from development (self-help projects) to micro-enterprise. These barriers include the impact of traditional practices on a modern organization; the struggle to align marketing principles with cultural constraints; the conceptual confusion of relating development principles to business practices in a community isolated from regional and national levels of development; the consequences of leapfrogging the phases of institutionalization when implementing ICTs; and the consequences of the transitory mobilization of actors.

Picking up the relay baton

Focaal ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (46) ◽  
pp. 36-53
Author(s):  
Andrea M. Lang
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Traditional Leaders ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Working Method

This article reflects the particular construction of 'Culture' by a network of ethnographers, bureaucrats, politicians, and traditional leaders in South Africa. It analyzes the impact of this specific understanding of Culture during the apartheid years and in the new democratic dispensation using actor network theory (ANT) as developed by Callon and Latour. The essay also explores the establishment of the network in colonial times, examines its working method during the apartheid years, and queries the reasons for its survival and restrengthening after the dismantling of apartheid. Furthermore, the article deals with the popularization of the network's Culture credo and discusses some consequences of this special understanding of Culture and of how the government should preserve it.

scholarly journals Intermittent Catheter Reimbursement in the United States: The Experience of Nine Stakeholders Through the Lens of Actor-Network Theory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manon Schladen ◽  
Amanda Rounds ◽  
Terrence McManus ◽  
Alexander Bennewith ◽  
Henry Claypool ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Neurogenic Bladder ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Potent Inhibitor ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
The United States ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
The Impact

A narrow interpretation of “medical necessity” can result in poorer health as well as a more restricted life for people with disabilities. We examined the impact of US policy on reimbursement of intermittent catheters (ICs) on the lives of people with neurogenic bladder (NB) who require catheters to urinate. We conducted in-depth, longitudinal interviews with nine stakeholders. Actor-Network Theory was used to describe interactions among human agents, IC products, and policies in the reimbursement arena. Restrictions on the type and quantities of ICs reimbursed emerged as the most potent inhibitor to health and wellbeing among consumers with NB. IC suppliers, due to the large number of other stakeholders with whom they interact in the reimbursement process, emerged as strong enablers of preferred IC use among people with NB. Lack of an impartial central clearinghouse on IC products and coverage impeded consumers’ ability to make informed decisions.

scholarly journals Komunikacja literacka wobec społeczeństwa sieci. Przykłady w najmłodszej polskiej poezji

Wielogłos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 75-100
Author(s):  
Zuzanna Sala
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Communication Structures ◽  
The Impact

Literary Communication and the Network Society. Examples in Recent Polish Poetry This article outlines the impact of changes in social structures on literary communication in contemporary Polish poetry. The author, using tools borrowed from sociology (Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory and Manuel Castells’s concept of network society), analyzes the communication structures in poetry published after 2012. Among the quoted and interpreted poetic books are Pamięć zewnętrzna by Radosław Jurczak, Animalia by Anna Adamowicz, Pamiętne statusy by Łukasz Podgórni, HWDP jako miejsce na ziemi by Tomasz Pułk, and Wiersze organiczne by Kacper Bartczak.

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