scholarly journals Välittäjät nykytaidemaailmassa: tuotantoputkesta toimijaverkkoon

2017 ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Kaija Kaitavuori
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Product Distribution ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Cultural Field ◽  
Art Production ◽  
Multiple Actors

Intermediaries of the Artworld. From Pipeline to Actor-Network looks at the different ways in which mediators or intermediaries in the cultural field have been conceptualised both in social theory (Becker, Danto, Dickie...) and by practitioners in the field of visual arts. The practical examples come mostly from discussions in Finland and from the visual arts. The article claims that a linear view of art production as a producer–product–distribution–user chain is not sufficient to explain how art is created and enjoyed. Instead, we should look at the process and its divers actors as a network in which there are connections and movement in all directions, rather than just from artists via mediators to audience. One case study, Santiago Sierra’s project Man in a Ditch (2001), is analysed as an example of a coproduction between multiple actors. The role of the artist turns out to be that of ‘cutting the network’.

The Smart City and Its Citizens

2019 ◽  
pp. 1407-1427
Author(s):  
Carlo Francesco Capra
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Complex Settings ◽  
Multiple Actors

Smart cities are associated almost exclusively with modern technology and infrastructure. However, smart cities have the possibility to enhance the involvement and contribution of citizens to urban development. This work explores the role of governance as one of the factors influencing the participation of citizens in smart cities projects. Governance characteristics play a major role in explaining different typologies of citizen participation. Through a focus on Amsterdam Smart City program as a specific case study, this research examines the characteristics of governance that are present in the overall program and within a selected sample of projects, and how they relate to different typologies of citizen participation. The analysis and comprehension of governance characteristics plays a crucial role both for a better understanding and management of citizen participation, especially in complex settings where multiple actors are interacting.

scholarly journals Cultures of anarchy: Images of Russia in the narrative of Norwegian mainstream news media during the Ukraine crisis 2014

2019 ◽  
pp. 175063521986402
Author(s):  
Nina M Bjørge ◽  
Øyvind Kalnes
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
News Media ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
The West ◽  
Strategic Narratives ◽  
Ukraine Crisis ◽  
Cross National

This article examines the role of the news media through a case study of the narratives about the 2014 Ukraine crisis in three major Norwegian newspapers. The conflict also contained a ‘war’ between competing strategic narratives from the involved actors, with a potential for cross-national cascades into the Norwegian narrative. The authors’ focus is on the framing of Russia during the most dramatic month of March 2014. They applied the images related to Wendt’s cultures of anarchy (see Social Theory of International Politics, 1999) to classify the framing of Russia. The Norwegian media narrative was relatively consistent in framing Russia as choosing a path leading away from being a rival of Norway and the West, towards becoming their enemy. This was close to the narrative of the Norwegian government and in clear opposition to the Russian narrative. While this supports Hoskins and O’Loughlin’s ‘arrested war’ hypothesis (published in Information, Communication & Society, 2015), it also raises questions about professional media norms.

Unravelling the Dynamics of IOIS Implementation: An Actor-Network Study of an IOIS in the Seaport of Barcelona

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Rodon ◽  
Joan Antoni Pastor ◽  
Feliciano Sesé ◽  
Ellen Christiaanse
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Technical Process ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Multilevel Study ◽  
Organizational Information ◽  
Fixed Set

Although inter-organizational information systems (IOIS) implementation has been widely studied, mainstream literature has not focused on understanding how implementation unfolds and how the existing components of the installed base shape the process. This paper addresses this gap by conducting a socio-technical, process-oriented, and multilevel study. Based on a longitudinal in-depth case study of the implementation of an industry IOIS, we develop an explication of IOIS implementation that considers the role of the installed base. Using the lens of actor-network theory (ANT), we counter the mainstream IOIS literature by showing that IOIS implementation cannot only be explained by a fixed set of independent factors; instead, the dynamic mutual shaping of socio-technical actors throughout implementation complements existing factor-based models in explaining the evolution and the outcome (success or failure). The study also shows the importance of complying with the technical and non-technical components of the installed base for an IOIS to be successfully initiated.

The Smart City and Its Citizens

2018 ◽  
pp. 321-341
Author(s):  
Carlo Francesco Capra
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Complex Settings ◽  
Multiple Actors

Smart cities are associated almost exclusively with modern technology and infrastructure. However, smart cities have the possibility to enhance the involvement and contribution of citizens to urban development. This work explores the role of governance as one of the factors influencing the participation of citizens in smart cities projects. Governance characteristics play a major role in explaining different typologies of citizen participation. Through a focus on Amsterdam Smart City program as a specific case study, this research examines the characteristics of governance that are present in the overall program and within a selected sample of projects, and how they relate to different typologies of citizen participation. The analysis and comprehension of governance characteristics plays a crucial role both for a better understanding and management of citizen participation, especially in complex settings where multiple actors are interacting.

scholarly journals Paimio Sanatorium under Construction

Arts ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Marianna Heikinheimo
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Construction Period ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Collective Competence ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Building Project

Alvar Aalto created innovative architecture in his breakthrough work, Paimio Sanatorium, located in Southwestern Finland and designed between 1928 and 1933. This empirical case study looked at the iconic piece of architecture from a new angle by implementing the actor-network theory (ANT). The focus was on how the architecture of the sanatorium came to be. A detailed description of the chronology and administration of the building process enabled observing on the role of the agency of the architect. The study surveyed the cooperation, collaboration, and decision making of the agency during the construction period. The first part of this paper focused on the relations and conditions of producing the sanatorium and analyzed the building through drawings and archive material; the second part linked to the actor-network theory of Bruno Latour and included a discussion on how Aalto managed to bring along the other actors. The study clearly showed the importance of a collaborative effort in a building project. The most special architectural solutions for Paimio Sanatorium, a demanding institutional building project, came into being in circumstances where the architect managed to create a viable network that merged collective competence with material factors.

On the governing of ‘gray’ trading spaces in Accra: multiple powers and ambiguous ‘worlding’ practices

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (0) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Lena Fält
Keyword(s):  
Land Uses ◽  
Urban Informality ◽  
Urban Economic ◽  
Urban Economic Development ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
State Actors ◽  
The One ◽  
Multiple Actors

Recent studies on ‘urban informality’ stress the role of the state in the production and governing of ‘gray spaces’. This paper contributes to this body of research by emphasising the multiple actors involved in the governance of informal land uses and their ambiguous positions on how these spaces should best be understood and approached. Based on an in-depth case study of ‘gray’ trading spaces in central Accra, I show that individual landowners in the vicinity of trading spots play a crucial role in the governing of roadside trading, together with state actors and traders. Furthermore, traders and state actors are both engaged in ambiguous ‘worlding practices’ that, on the one hand, envision Accra as becoming a city where street trade is eradicated, while, on the other hand, street trade is considered to be an opportunity for urban (economic) development. These varied perspectives imply that neither traders nor state bodies are uniform actors and that these groups are not necessarily positioned against each other.

scholarly journals Poésie intégrée aux arts visuels: une étude de cas sur la créativité / Integrating Poetry to Visual Arts: a Creativity Case-Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-107
Author(s):  
Lise Robichaud
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Mind Wandering ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Creativity Development ◽  
Etude De Cas

Résumé : Cette étude exploratoire vise à réfléchir sur la créativité en examinant la place de la poésie dans une pratique artistique en arts visuels. Trois stratégies de développement de la créativité y sont présentées et on souligne l’importance de faire place à la rêverie pour créer.  De genre autobiographique, l’auteure analyse plusieurs de ses productions artistiques réalisées dans le cadre de symposiums, de résidence d’artiste et d’exposition. Il en ressort des pistes d’intégration de la poésie aux arts visuels qui pourraient s’avérer pertinentes pour le  domaine de l’éducation.Mots-clés: Arts visuels; créativité; éducation artistique; poésie.Abstract: This exploratory research is meant as a reflection on creativity by studying the role of poetry within the practice of visual arts. It describes three creativity development strategies and stresses the importance of mind-wandering and imagination in the creative process.  Adopting an autobiographic style, the author analyses several of her artworks created in residency and for exhibits.  It proposes ways of integrating poetry to visual arts, which could be relevant in education.Keywords: Visual Arts; Creativity; Art Education; Poetry.

scholarly journals Rorty and contemporary social theory

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-116
Author(s):  
Srdjan Prodanovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Moral Progress ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Cultural Field ◽  
Western Democracy ◽  
Postmodern Thought ◽  
Contemporary Social Theory

The aim of this paper is to show certain aspects of Rorty?s philosophy that are relevant to social theory, and also to point out the most important divergences of Rorty?s insights from postmodern understanding of social reality. Therefore, in the first part of the paper I will examine both Rorty?s philosophy of edification and all relevant criticisms to his view of philosophy ?as a communication of mankind?. Furthermore, I will try to establish to which extent Rorty?s understanding of contingency and its implications really falls close to postmodern thought. I will also argue that the impossibility of philosophical justification of social reality, according to Rorty, does not entail impossibility of moral progress and that the role of social theory is actually in raising the level of inclusion of social interaction and in providing social hope. Moreover, it will be shown that Rorty, unlike Foucault and Derrida, thought that the institutions of Western democracy and liberalism are quite capable to achieve these goals and that accomplishment of this liberal utopia greatly depends on the degree of commitment to moral progress that all actors (writers, social scientists and philosophers) within the cultural field share.

scholarly journals Entangled interpretations and a transnational art exhibition:The case of (…) Ketsin! Art from the Kyrgyz Republic (Shoreditch, May 2013)

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-355
Author(s):  
Sally Nikoline Cummings
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Exhibition Design ◽  
Kyrgyz Republic

Through the case study of a visual arts exhibition on the Kyrgyz Revolution, (...) Ketsin! (May 2013), this article traces the complex set of factors that influence how a transnational exhibition is interpreted. Combining literatures on visual representation, the role of intentionality in authorship, and, museum and gallery studies, I propose here the notion of ‘entangled interpretations’ to convey the overlapping and muddled layers rather than discrete parts that together constitute interpretation. These layers comprise: the artworks; other works in the same genre and other works by the same artists; the exhibition design and display; the architecture of the venue; the artists’ intentions; the roles of commissioner, sponsor and curator; and, the split audience: original and intended.

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