scholarly journals Technological change in developing countries: opening the black box of process using actor–network theory

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Heeks ◽  
Carolyne Stanforth
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Actor Network

Reassembling the Problem of the Under-Representation of Girls in IT Courses

2011 ◽  
pp. 208-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonie Rowan ◽  
Chris Bigum
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Australian Research Council ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Key Questions

The percentages of girls in developing countries undertaking information technology subjects in the post-compulsory years of education has remained persistently low: often under 25%. This is despite the fact that this particular phenomenon has been the subject of sustained international enquiry for at least three decades. This article investigates data collected during an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant project (2005-2007) that aimed to identify some of the contemporary reasons for this under-representation in Australian schools. The original phases of data collection proceeded from the belief that there was a clear and agreed understanding that the low numbers of girls was a problem worthy of analysis. As the project evolved, however, significant differences between the researchers’ perception of the underrepresentation and the participants’ views about the same issue. In this paper we make use of actor-network theory to ask key questions about the extent to which the enrolment of girls in IT is indeed ‘a problem’.

Convergence

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-147
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
To Come ◽  
Insight Into

Actor network theory as the “sociology of translation,” is used as a lens to examine the chronology of the development of the MOU Agreement, which provides insight into the mechanics of its formation and network of relations. Translation uncovered dimensions of the network's development: why associations between the actors were created, the factors that mobilized these heterogeneous parties to come together. Further, it also uncovered how their functions were ascribed and how stability or “black box” status was achieved. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is positioned as a moment in ANT facilitating the analyses of the network linkages of the MOU actor network assist to identify the interactions at various levels of the MOU social partnership actor network. The two worldviews complement each other within an interpretivist framework revealing the potential to analyse network interactions through the lens of discourse.

Producing Oedipus: Totem and Taboo Read Through Actor Network Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-204
Author(s):  
Felipe Massao Kuzuhara
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Clinical Cases

This article reads Freud's Totem and Taboo (1912–13) according to its role within the consolidation of the Oedipus complex. Freud's text is discussed with a focus on the process of knowledge production in psychoanalysis, and in relation to Bruno Latour's ideas of translation, association and black box. In this respect, this article regards a central feature of Totem and Taboo as being the articulation of a full-scale argument for the production of the Oedipus complex as ‘fact’. It is in this sense that different actors such as clinical cases, totemism, phylogenesis, the development of psychoanalytic theory and so on are considered here.

scholarly journals “Blackout!” Unpacking the Black Box of the Game Event

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Conway ◽  
Andrew Trevillian
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Social World ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Memory Card ◽  
Practical Model

In this article we propose a new ontology for games, synthesising phenomenology, Latourian Actor-Network Theory and Goffmanian frame analysis. In doing so we offer a robust, minimal and practical model for the analyst and designer, that clearly illustrates the network of objects within the 'Black Box' of any game, illuminating how each object (from player to memory card to sunlight) may move between three levels of the Game Event: Social World, Operative World and Character World. Abbreviating these worlds, a shorthand for the model is SOC (Social/Operative/Character).

Beyond Actor Network Theory to the Marriage of Moments

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 48-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
Partnership Agreement

In 2004, the Government of Jamaica and the Confederation of Trade Unions signed a social partnership agreement or Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which maintained the size of the public sector and wage expenditure, in exchange for no redundancies. The implementation of the Agreement unearthed unanticipated implications for the practice of power within the partnership. The ontology of Actor Network Theory, conceptualizes the MoU as an actor which, through the mechanics of translation, creates its own actor network that it seeks to inscribe with its own discourse to attain a ‘black box' status. The inclusion of discourse as a moment and use of Critical Discourse Analysis provides for the penetration of the impenetrable black box of network interaction and analytical possibilities. The paper argues for the recognition of discourse as a moment in ANT which strengthens it and affords a mode of analysis to deconstruct or explore inner distributions of power.

scholarly journals Actor-network theory: opening the black box of the reasons for the involvement of researchers in the technology transfer process

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-72
Author(s):  
Marcelo De Oliveira Garcia ◽  
Rodrigo Gava ◽  
Dany Flávio Tonelli ◽  
Valéria da Glória Pereira Brito
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Transfer Process ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Technology Transfer Process ◽  
Transfer Of Technology

The process of technology transfer represents a type of social phenomenon that becomes a black box after its completion. That is, access to the process becomes invisible and obscure. The reasons that lead a public researcher to participate in the technology transfer process represented the main concerns to support the research question, whose derived analysis was based on the theoretical-methodological assumptions of the Actor-Network Theory (ANT). This research contributes to understanding the transfer of technology as a complex phenomenon that features the participation of actors with complex and diverse interests; that is, each technology transfer process is singular in its understanding.

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