scholarly journals Empowering Residents: A Theoretical Framework for Negotiating Surveillance Technologies

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Albrechtslund ◽  
Louise Nørgaard Glud
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Dynamic Relation ◽  
Enabling Technologies ◽  
Persuasive Technologies

The aim of this article is to develop an understanding of negotiation as a proactive user behavior in response to persuasive, surveillance-enabling technologies. We work with a case where the ambition is to use maps to persuade residents in marginalized residential areas to take co-ownership of the future of their neighborhood. However, we argue that by negotiating persuasive technologies, residents can domesticate and “reconfigure” these, thus we need to broaden the dominant understanding of persuasion (Fogg 2003) to include the process of negotiation. Inspired by Actor-Network Theory, we argue that we need a framework that takes into account negotiations of other actors than the persuasive designer to bring a more nuanced and active understanding of responses to surveillance technologies. This article suggests that negotiation can be both user empowering as well as a productive measure in an ongoing designer-user relation. While the designer persuades, the user negotiates, and this dynamic relation contributes to potentially better technology development.

scholarly journals Techniques of Translating A Watchful Distance by Zhou Guoping in China

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 858
Author(s):  
Min Liu
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Philosophical Literature ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Contemporary Philosopher ◽  
The Relationship

Chinese philosophical literature is rarely introduced to foreign countries (Pohl, 1999, p. 303). Zhou Guoping, as a contemporary philosopher and essayist, has created essays with both depth and readability, and thus his works are deemed to be worthy of translation. This article aims to elaborate on the translator’s techniques for transferring Zhou Guoping’s famous collection of essays A Watchful Distance. Divided into four sections, this article uses actor-network theory as its theoretical framework and analyses the translator’s position in translation activities from sociocultural perspective, gives corresponding translating techniques to problems related to creativity, conventionalised expressions, utterances and Chinese cultural elements in this book, and draws a conclusion upon the relationship between cultural homogeneity and corresponding translating techniques underpinned by actor-network theory. By discussing specific translating techniques used for Zhou’s book, this article fills up the gap in the transfer techniques of A Watchful Distance to overseas cultures. However, the limitation lies in that the number of Zhou’s works studied are restricted.

scholarly journals Om mursten og minder, gråd og globalisering

1970 ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Kristine Munkgård Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Emotional Geography ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
Broad Variety

Konferencen “Emotional Geography”, Aarhus Universitet, Århus 2. november 2006.Ten speakers from a range of academic fields were invited to discuss the concept of Emotional Geography and to debate how spaces change as a result of contemporary culture, globalisation and the experience economy.The conference touched upon a broad variety of empirical cases from within tourism, art, branding, urban studies and media studies. The theoretical framework was also broad, extending from phenomenology to Actor Network Theory and Heidegger’s concept of Dwelling. 

Why It Is Difficult to Disengage From Facebook

2018 ◽  
pp. 7190-7199
Author(s):  
Sonda Bouattour Fakhfakh
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
Do So

The huge popularity of social network sites like Facebook gave rise to numerous studies exploring the prerequisites and consequences of FB use. This article does not deviate from this direction. It offers a theoretic attempt to analyze the reasons of attachment to FB but through another perspective: the disengagement phenomenon. The theoretical framework is based on the Attachment Theory and the Actor Network Theory. Assuming that FB allows the satisfaction of the innate attachment need and that there is a social and technical interaction between users and the FB structure, the present analysis investigates the relations between user attachment style and FB use and between FB user and the FB platform (hardware and software). The aim here is not to reject (or not) some formulated hypothesis, but to develop a theoretical frame from the existing theories. The argument is that human/human and human/non-human attachment could explain why users find it very difficult to disengage even though they are willing to do so and suffering from being invaded by FB.

scholarly journals Arosenius Translated. Digitisation as a Rephrasing of Meaning

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Jonathan Westin
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Digital Copy

To analyse and discuss the procedures through which a digital copy is brought into being as a representation of the physical original, this study offers an in-depth exploration of a single digitisation effort, that of the Ivar Arosenius Archive. Using Actor-Network Theory as a theoretical framework, this article argues that to digitise is to translate, a work that demands expert knowledge in a series of disciplines such as information science, image processing, archiving and conservation. The translation functions to rephrase the archival material with the purpose of making it mobile and conform to those protocols that define something as being digital, all while enrolling associations which strengthens it as a digital original. However, through this process, the multi-sensory archive is reduced to an ocularcentric archive, potentially losing meaning.

Why It Is Difficult to Disengage From Facebook

2019 ◽  
pp. 598-608
Author(s):  
Sonda Bouattour Fakhfakh
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
Do So

The huge popularity of social network sites like Facebook gave rise to numerous studies exploring the prerequisites and consequences of FB use. This chapter does not deviate from this direction. It offers a theoretic attempt to analyze the reasons of attachment to FB but through another perspective: the disengagement phenomenon. The theoretical framework is based on the attachment theory and the actor network theory. Assuming that FB allows the satisfaction of the innate attachment need and that there is a social and technical interaction between users and the FB structure, the present analysis investigates the relations between user attachment style and FB use and between FB user and the FB platform (hardware and software). The aim here is not to reject (or not) some formulated hypothesis, but to develop a theoretical frame from the existing theories. The argument is that human/human and human/non-human attachment could explain why users find it very difficult to disengage even though they are willing to do so and suffering from being invaded by FB.

About trust in Google, and more

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Svetlana Shibarshina
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Actor Network

This text is a reply in the discussion about the challenges of digitalization for the technogenic civilization. In the context of the general problematic field of reflections initiated by Evgeniy Maslanov, the author focuses on the power of algorithms starting from M. Foucault’s concept of power and correlating it with the actor-network theory and John Urri’s thought on path dependence. The author suggests a few examples of how algorithms collect, compare and analyze user behavior in the Internet space (also with reference to the research of M. Kosinski), demonstrating how all of these allow to reconstruct an amazingly accurate digital portrait of a particular individual.

STRUCTURING A SUCCESSFUL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROCESS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF ACTOR NETWORK THEORY

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huda Ibrahim ◽  
Hasmiah Kasimin
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Transfer Process ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Technology Transfer Process

An effi cient and effective information technology transfer from developed countries to Malaysia is an important issue as a prerequisite to support the ICT needs of the country to become not only a ICT user but also a ICT producer. One of the factors that infl uences successful information technology transfer is managing the process of how technology transfer occurs in one environment. It involves managing interaction between all parties concerned which requires an organized strategy and action toward accomplishing technology transfer objective in an integrated and effective mode. Using a conceptual framework based on the Actor Network Theory (ANT), this paper will analyse a successful information technology transfer process at a private company which is also a supplier of information technology (IT) products to the local market. This framework will explain how the company has come up with a successful technology transfer in a local environment. Our study shows that the company had given interest to its relationships with all the parties involved in the transfer process. The technology transfer programme and the strategy formulated take into account the characteristics of technology and all those involved.  

The Action of Christian Buildings on their Chinese Environment

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-121
Author(s):  
Michel Chambon
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
Actor Network

This article explores the ways in which Christians are building churches in contemporary Nanping, China. At first glance, their architectural style appears simply neo-Gothic, but these buildings indeed enact a rich web of significances that acts upon local Christians and beyond. Building on Actor-Network Theory and exploring the multiple ties in which they are embedded, I argue that these buildings are agents acting in their own right, which take an active part in the process of making the presence of the Christian God tangible.

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