scholarly journals Corrigendum

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-465
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Spelling Error ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Management Communication ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
Agency Management

Brummans, B. H. J. M. (2015). Forum introduction: Organizational communication and the question of agency. Management Communication Quarterly, 29(3), 458-462. DOI: 10.1177/0893318915584823 The author regrets that there is a spelling error in the second paragraph of page 458 of this forum introduction. Line 7 should read as follows (the change is shown in bold): Drawing on actor-network theory as well as Bakhtinian dialogism, among other intellectual traditions, Cooren looks at agency through a ventriloquial lens to understand how language and action are always inhabited by passions and principles that make themselves heard and felt in interactions and thus shape our organizing. Also, on page 459, third paragraph, line 18 should read: And if the same newspaper states, “The Chinese Government said today . . . “ or “Google said . . .,” we usually glance over the fact that the Chinese Government or Google cannot speak for themselves without their spokespersons—or the fact that the New York Times cannot state anything without journalists writing on its behalf (see also McPhee’s essay).

How Artefacts Do Leadership: A Ventriloquial Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 089331892199807
Author(s):  
Jonathan Clifton ◽  
Fernando Fachin ◽  
François Cooren
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Distributed Leadership ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Human Actors

To date there has been little work that uses fine-grained interactional analyses of the in situ doing of leadership to make visible the role of non-human as well as human actants in this process. Using transcripts of naturally-occurring interaction as data, this study seeks to show how leadership is co-achieved by artefacts as an in-situ accomplishment. To do this we situate this study within recent work on distributed leadership and argue that it is not only distributed across human actors, but also across networks that include both human and non-human actors. Taking a discursive approach to leadership, we draw on Actor Network Theory and adopt a ventriloquial approach to sociomateriality as inspired by the Montreal School of organizational communication. Findings indicate that artefacts “do” leadership when a hybrid presence is made relevant to the interaction and when this presence provides authoritative grounds for influencing others to achieve the group’s goals.

Studying DNA

2014 ◽  
pp. 196-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Quinlan
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
Intellectual Traditions

Feminist methodologies and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have often been considered opposing theoretical and intellectual traditions. This chapter imagines a conversation between these seemingly divergent fields and considers the theoretical and methodological challenges that ANT and particular branches of feminist thought raise for the other. This chapter examines an empirical project that calls for an engagement with both ANT and feminist methodologies. Through the lens of this empirical project, four methodological questions are considered, which an alliance between ANT and feminist methodologies would raise for any research project: 1) Where do we start our analysis? 2) Which actors should we follow? 3) What can we see when we begin to follow the actors? 4) What about politics? The potential places where ANT and feminist methodologies can meet and mutually shape research on scientific practice and technological innovation are explored. In doing so, this chapter moves towards envisioning new intersections between feminist methodologies and ANT.

Enemies, Parasites, and Noise

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Kockelman
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Internet Service Providers ◽  
Reported Speech ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
Roman Jakobson

This chapter begins by outlining some common properties of channels, infrastructure, and institutions. It connects and critiques the assumptions and interventions of three influential intellectual traditions: cybernetics (via Claude Shannon), linguistics and anthropology (via Roman Jakobson), and actor-network theory (via Michel Serres). By developing the relation between Serres’s notion of the parasite and Peirce’s notion of thirdness, it theorizes the role of those creatures who live in and off infrastructure: not just enemies, parasites, and noise, but also pirates, trolls, and internet service providers. And by extending Jakobson’s account of duplex categories (shifters, proper names, meta-language, reported speech) from codes to channels, it theorizes four reflexive modes of circulation any network may involve: self-channeling channels, source-dependent channels, signer-directed signers, and channel-directed signers. The conclusion returns to the notion of enclosure, showing the ways that networks are simultaneously a condition for, and a target of, knowledge, power, and profit.

scholarly journals Seeing through transparency in education reform: Illuminating the “local”

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Koyama ◽  
Brian Kania
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Reform Organizations

Utilizing “assemblage,” a notion associated with Actor-Network Theory (ANT), we explore what discourses of transparency can, and cannot, accomplish in a network of education reform that includes schools, government agencies, and community organizations. Drawing on data collected between July 2011 and March 2013 in an ethnographically-informed case study, we interrogate the ways in which notions of transparency illuminate, and also conceal, information, as well as reveal how they reorder power dynamics and relationships, impacting what it legitimized as reform in a city in Western New York. We problematize the linkages between the political conditions in which mandatory transparency and accountability in schooling become connected to voluntary transparency in local education reform, and we examine the investment made by schools and reform organizations in using transparency as a proxy for meeting accountability demands and establishing education expertise. The findings show that discourses and enactments of transparency can be effective in drawing targeted and repeated attention to select things, such as funding inequities. However, such discourses can also be utilized to obscure other issues, such as persistent disparities in academic achievement by race. When used synonymously with accountability, transparency can, and is, incorrectly positioned as an education solution.

The politics of fear in Hong Kong protest representations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liu Ming ◽  
Jingxue Ma
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Politics Of Fear ◽  
Traditional Patterns ◽  
Distinct Strategy

Abstract This study gives a corpus-assisted discourse study of the representations of 2019 Hong Kong protests in the New York Times. With the corpus-analytic tools Wmatrix and Wordsmith, it examines both the dominant patterns in its representations and the specific strategies used. The findings suggest that while NYT still draws on the traditional patterns in its representations of Hong Kong protests, it deviates from the protest paradigm in its representations of concerned parties. Meanwhile, emotion discourse has emerged as a distinct strategy in its representations. This is most revealing in the emotion of fear, and a close analysis of its use in its context has revealed its role in the construction of concerned parties and the distrust of Hong Kong people towards the Chinese government.

Agency on Trial in Daily Fantasy Sport

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-153
Author(s):  
Christopher M. McLeod ◽  
John T. Holden ◽  
Joshua I. Newman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Sociology Of Sport ◽  
Illegal Gambling ◽  
Fantasy Sport

The New York Attorney General filed a lawsuit against DraftKings and FanDuel in 2015 accusing them of operating illegal gambling platforms. Using actor–network theory, we show how DraftKings, FanDuel, the New York Attorney General, critics, and legislators were preoccupied with how much agency players possessed. They also understood agency as emerging from a sociomaterial arrangement of human and nonhuman entities and saw how agency could be enhanced or limited by introducing new rules, technologies, and constraints. We compare this perspective on agency with theories typically used in sociology of sport and we consider how sociologists can intervene in sport agency.

scholarly journals Immersive journalism: the factors of effective functioning

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-55
Author(s):  
O. Kyrylova
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Functional Factors ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Object Of Study

The main approaches to the definition of the “immersive journalism” phenomenon is considered and its working definition is derived. This working definition incorporates both traditional and newest approaches to the structure-forming, technological and functional factors of the production of VR-content. There are the levels of immersion into the story are analyzed on the example of video–360 ° scenes (posted on the official YouTube channel of t The New York Times) in this study. The factors influencing the formation of the system of user preferences are studied. The results of vidIQ analysis of five the most popular immersive scenes are compared and presented. It tried to measure the presence in the virtual environment by the of the Witmer-Singer’s method. The study also used the methodology of actor-network theory and the approaches of Maria-Laure Ryan. The object of study are the most popular vidIQ assessment immersive video of “The New York Times” (2015–2017): “Walking New York”, “The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima”, “The Fight for Falluja”, “Seeking Pluto's Frigid Heart” and “The Displaced” as the one of the most resonant immersive publications. In this empirical material, the components of the VR effect are highlighted: presence, involvement, immersion. Each of the components is built up by the functioning of a few factors from the Witmer-Singer model. It’s determined that the components of the VR effect are not equivalent. The basis of the immersive narration is the effect of presence, supported either by immersion in the storu, or by involvement into the environment. The results indicate that it’s quite difficult to consider the whole complex of factors in the production of journalistic materials. In full, they work in making and consuming of not immersive, but VR-content. For the media, the VR technology is not yet a priority, and therefore they prefer to create a presence effect through the possibilities of influencing the algorithm of narrative deployment and the realism presented environment.

Imagining a Feminist Actor-Network Theory

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Quinlan
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Intellectual Traditions

Feminism and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have often been considered opposing theoretical and intellectual traditions. This paper imagines a meeting between these seemingly divergent fields and considers the theoretical and methodological challenges that ANT and feminism raise for one another. This paper examines an empirical project that calls for an engagement with both ANT and feminism. Through the lens of this empirical project, three methodological questions that an alliance between ANT and feminism would raise for any research project are considered: 1) Where does the analysis start? 2) What can be seen once the research has begun? 3) What about politics? The potential places where ANT and feminism can meet and mutually shape research on scientific practice and technological innovation are explored. In doing so, this paper moves toward an imagining of a feminist ANT.

Transcending networks’ boundaries: losses and displacements at the contact zone between English and Hebrew

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (254) ◽  
pp. 185-204
Author(s):  
Efrat Eilam ◽  
Julianne Lynch
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Contact Zone ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Complementary Education ◽  
English Speaking

Abstract This conceptual article applies a theoretical-linguistic analysis for examining the socio-cultural-historical networks that gave rise to two distinct forms of out-of-school education. One form is practiced in western English speaking cultures and termed “informal education”. The other form is practiced in Israel and termed “complementary education”. The process of examination applies the theoretical lens of Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) to analyse how social- historical-cultural-political processes have interacted to produce “complementary education” in Israel. This is followed by analysis of the bi-lingual translation processes that take place at the contact-zone (Pratt, M. L. 1991. Arts of the contact zone. Profession, ofession, 33–40. Modern Language Association Publishers.) between the two languages. The ANT analysis revealed a network consisting of a unique educational model that closely aligns with Ivan (Illich, I. 1971. Deschooling society. New York, USA: Harper and Row.) model presented in his seminal book Deschooling society. The examination also revealed that over time, the Anglophone term “informal education” displaced the Hebrew term “complementary education”, yet the network itself with its unique model continues to thrive. Examination of the contact zone between English and Hebrew found a strong Anglophone dominance, which permits only unidirectional translation from English to Hebrew. The discussion argues for developing post-monolingual research which provides opportunities for bi-directional translation processes to take place, thus eliminating losses of valuable knowledge at both sides of the contact zone.

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