The Sentiment Revealed in Social Networks during the Games of the Brazilian Team in the 2014 World Cup

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-51
Author(s):  
Rita Paulino
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Data Form ◽  
Sociotechnical Networks

The participation of people in social networks is undeniably a contemporary phenomenon that presents as a characteristic not only the flow of explicit information in data form, natural and complex, but also some information (data) from the network's own movement. It is in this context that this article fits with the purpose of revealing information that is implied in participatory movements of sociotechnical networks. For this, one can rely on the conceptual theoretical contribution about Actor-Network Theory (ANT), by Bruno Latour (2012): “follow things through the networks they carry”. It is believed that by following the movements of social networks, one can view information that reflects feelings and actions that are implied in the connections about facts and events. In this article, the author will analyze and monitor social networks during the games of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil. This approach brings us to an applied research and experimental.

The Sentiment Revealed in Social Networks during the Games of the Brazilian Team in the 2014 World Cup

Big Data ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 1705-1716
Author(s):  
Rita Paulino
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Explicit Information ◽  
Sociotechnical Networks

The participation of people in social networks is undeniably a contemporary phenomenon that presents as a characteristic not only the flow of explicit information in data form, natural and complex, but also some information (data) from the network's own movement. It is in this context that this article fits with the purpose of revealing information that is implied in participatory movements of sociotechnical networks. For this, one can rely on the conceptual theoretical contribution about Actor-Network Theory (ANT), by Bruno Latour (2012): “follow things through the networks they carry”. It is believed that by following the movements of social networks, one can view information that reflects feelings and actions that are implied in the connections about facts and events. In this article, the author will analyze and monitor social networks during the games of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil. This approach brings us to an applied research and experimental.

scholarly journals Teologi som ulike biter og deler. Ti år med trosopplæring i Den norske kirke

Prismet ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Tveito Johnsen
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Christian Education ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Persuasive Discourse ◽  
Christian Practices ◽  
Internally Persuasive Discourse

This article analyzes how «theology» has been understood and practised in discussions taking place in relation to the implementation of the Christian Education Reform in Church of Norway. One of the main findings is that previous research has been discursive in their way of approaching theology as an authoritative discourse. Seeking to establish theology as an internally persuasive discourse, this article argues that activities beyond what has traditionally been understood as particularly Christian practices should be included as a constituting part of the educational programs taking place in Church of Norway. Being the first article to analyze the ten first years of the Christian Education Reform, its main theoretical contribution is to demonstrate how an ANT approach can question conceptions of theology often taken for granted in this empirical field.Keywords: Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) • Bruno Latour • John Law • Modes of Syncretism • Self-Ethnography • Conceptions of Theology • The Christian Education Reform in Church of Norway.Nøkkelord: Aktør-nettverk-teori (ANT) • Bruno Latour • John Law • Synkretismemoduser • Selv-etnografi • Teologibegreper • Trosopplæringsreformen i Den norske kirke.

scholarly journals Challenges in Developing Urban Marketing Strategies: Evidence From Ekaterinburg

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1137-1150
Author(s):  
D. M. Kochetkov ◽  
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D.B. Vuković ◽  
E.A. Kondyurina ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Place Marketing ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Winter Olympics ◽  
System Solution ◽  
Marketing Positioning

2018 FIFA World Cup became the first championship held in Russia and Eastern Europe. However, at that time, Russia already had experience in hosting sports mega-events such as the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, and before that the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. Hosting the championship in 11 cities at once sets the 2018 FIFA World Cup apart from all these events. It gave impetus to the socio-economic development of all cities (and regions) where the matches were held, including Ekaterinburg. On the other hand, the sports mega-event provides unique opportunities for the global marketing positioning of the city. The present study examines the challenges of developing a city marketing strategy using the case of Ekaterinburg. Theoretical foundations of place marketing were employed for the analysis. Based on the critically explored concepts of place marketing and the competitiveness of the territory, the author’s 4C + 1S model was constructed. The current state of the urban environment was evaluated using a SWOT analysis conducted in a group of students. The research also analysed cities’ experience in conducting recent sports mega-events in the world and managing their facilities and infrastructure after these events. In conclusion, we formulated the proposals for Ekaterinburg’s positioning, including the improvement of the transport system, solution to environmental problems, increase in the effectiveness of the local government, and maintenance of public consensus. As a basis for specialisation, it is suggested to consider either the industry of meetings (MICE) or industrial tourism with complementary ‘natural’ and ‘historical’ directions. The proposed 4C + 1S model can be used as a methodological framework for the creation of urban marketing strategies. Additionally, the article makes a theoretical contribution to the development of place marketing. The results can be applied in further academic urban studies.

Entanglement, Materiality and the Social Organisation of Construction Workers in Classical Athens

2018 ◽  
pp. 512-528
Author(s):  
Diane Harris Cline
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
The Social ◽  
Building Program

This chapter views the “Periclean Building Program” through the lens of Actor Network Theory, in order to explore the ways in which the construction of these buildings transformed Athenian society and politics in the fifth century BC. It begins by applying some Actor Network Theory concepts to the process that was involved in getting approval for the building program as described by Thucydides and Plutarch in his Life of Pericles. Actor Network Theory blends entanglement (human-material thing interdependence) with network thinking, so it allows us to reframe our views to include social networks when we think about the political debate and social tensions in Athens that arose from Pericles’s proposal to construct the Parthenon and Propylaea on the Athenian Acropolis, the Telesterion at Eleusis, the Odeon at the base of the South slope of the Acropolis, and the long wall to Peiraeus. Social Network Analysis can model the social networks, and the clusters within them, that existed in mid-fifth century Athens. By using Social Network Analysis we can then show how the construction work itself transformed a fractious city into a harmonious one through sustained, collective efforts that engaged large numbers of lower class citizens, all responding to each other’s needs in a chaine operatoire..

Talking about Associations and Descriptions or a Short Story about Associology

2017 ◽  
pp. 220-233
Author(s):  
Beate Ochsner
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Agency And Structure

In 1999, Bruno Latour advocated for “abandoning what was wrong with ANT, that is ‘actor,' ‘network,' ‘theory' without forgetting the hyphen.” However, it seems that the “hyphen,” which brings with it the operation of hyphenating or connecting, was abandoned too quickly. If one investigates what something is by asking what it is meant as well as how it emerges, by (re-)tracing the strategy in materials in situated practices and sets of relations, and, by bypassing the distinction between agency and structure, one shifts from studying “what causes what” to describing “how things happen.” This perspective not only makes it necessary for us to clarify the changing positions and displacements of human and non-human actors in the assemblage, but, also question the role (the enrolment) of the researcher him/herself: What kind of “relation” connects the researcher to his/her research and associates him/her with the subject, how to prevent (or not) his/her own involvement, and, to what degree s/he ignores the relationality of his/her writing in a “sociology of association?”

From the Sacred to the Sacred Object

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin Sayes ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
Michel Serres ◽  
Sacred Object ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The philosophy of Bruno Latour has given us one of the most important statements on the part played by technology in the ordering of the human collective. Typically presented as a radical departure from mainstream social thought, Latour is not without his intellectual creditors: Michel Serres and, through him, René Girard. By tracing this development, we are led to understand better the relationship of Latour’s work, and Actor-Network Theory more generally, to traditional sociological concerns. By doing so we can also hope to understand better the role that objects play in structuring society.

The Construction of a Network Technology: Electronic Livestock Auction Markets

1998 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 183-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Graham
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Network Technology ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Network Building ◽  
The Social

This paper uses Callon's actor network theory (ANT) to analyse the emergence of an inter-organisational network innovation: electronic livestock auction systems in the United Kingdom. It is based on a study of the development of these systems by drawing on interviews with developers, operators and users of the competing systems and focusing on the social networks that evolved in their conception and adoption. The validity of ANT as a framework for the analysis of innovation is critically considered. The paper concludes that complexity and barriers to network building led the networks to be constructed from existing components and social linkages, thereby limiting the potential of the innovation to incorporate radical change in the social structure.

scholarly journals Latour and Literary Studies

PMLA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
pp. 737-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Felski
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Style Of Thought

I am interested in questions of reading and interpretation. I am also drawn to actor-network theory and the work of Bruno Latour. Can these attractions be brought into alignment? To what extent can a style of thought that describes itself as empiricist and rejects critique speak to the dominant concerns of literary studies? Can actor-network theory help us think more adequately about interpretation? Might it inspire us to become more generous readers? How do literary studies and Latourian thought engage, enlist, seduce, or speak past each other? What duels, rivalries, intrigues, appropriations, or love affairs will ensue?

scholarly journals Consumption, "Tourism-Merchandise" and Actor-Network Theory: The Cartography of Controversies and the Case of Telegraph Rock Trail – RJ

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Bárbara Lúcia Guimarães Alves ◽  
Fred Tavares ◽  
Giselle Gama Torres Ferreira ◽  
Jefferson Fernando Gonçalves Guedes da Costa ◽  
Margarete Ribeiro Tavares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Influencing Factor ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Control Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociotechnical Networks ◽  
Social Behaviours

The contemporaneity is marked, in part, by the Control Society, characterised, among other aspects, by consumption. In this scene, both the material and the immaterial objects come to have value in the market, so that one of the influential tools in this period is the use of sociotechnical networks, also involving the social behaviours of individuals and their desires of belonging. In this perspective, the research aims at analysing the use of the images inherent to the landscape of the Telegraph Rock Trail - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - transmitted in these networks, as an influencing factor in the increase of the number of visitors in this place, having as background to the control society. The study attentive to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory (ANT), which measures the fact that the "human actor" and "non-human" can transform the society. Thus, Facebook posts were analysed from the Cartography of Controversies, which is the operationalisation of the Actor-Network Theory (ANT). For that, the contents of the publications from the years 2015 to 2017 were analysed, in the page called "Pedra do Telégrafo_RJ", with 41 thousand participants. Clues point out that the use of socio-technical networks, in the scope of consumption may have influenced the process of production of the trail, through its transformation into a product that now has market value, through the logic "tourism-commodity".

Between Blackboxing and Unfolding

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Christine Reite
Keyword(s):  
Professional Learning ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Learning Networks ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
A Value ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
The Church

In this article the author will analyse professional learning of pastors. Pastors can be an example of a value-oriented profession being both a keeper of traditions and an innovator facing the challenges of globalization and secularization. The analysis of pastor networks is therefore an interesting case of professional learning in a changing society. The author presents an ethnographic study of five pastors from the Church of Norway doing their everyday work. The author asks: What characterize the professional learning networks of pastors between blackboxing and unfolding? The analytical perspectives of Actor-Network Theory and Bruno Latour (1987) are employed, as the author argues that professional learning is a process of moving between “blackboxing” and “unfolding”. Thus, the author brings a socio-material perspective into the value-oriented field of education. The case of pastors can contribute to elaborate the tools for analysing professional learning The findings illuminate the challenges many professionals have today, namely to handle different modes of learning.

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