"A Study on the Introduction of ‘Actor-Network Theory’ as a History of photography Research Methodology. - focusing on multilayered networks translations of photography emergence -"

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-245
Author(s):  
Kyung Ryul Lee ◽  
Ju hee Kong
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
History Of Photography ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Dramatic Networks: Marginalized Economics and Labour in The Norwich Grocers’ Play

Early Theatre ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffery G Stoyanoff
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Salvation History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Using actor-network theory, this essay argues that the Norwich Grocers’ Play creates a dramatic network among the city of Norwich, the actors of the play, and the marginal audience members from Norwich and its surrounding countryside when read in light of the Norwich Corporation assembly minute of 1527 and the history of social unrest culminating in Kett’s Rebellion of 1549. The staging, costuming, and language of the play all function to ally the audience with the salvation history presented in the play and, in so doing, ensure the continued peace and prosperity of Norwich in the later 1560s despite challenges that could have led to unrest mirroring that experienced in the 1540s.

scholarly journals Governing Uncertainty or Uncertain Governance? Information Security and the Challenge of Cutting Ties

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Slayton
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Security Governance ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Information Security Governance

Information security governance has become an elusive goal and a murky concept. This paper problematizes both information security governance and the broader concept of governance. What does it mean to govern information security, or for that matter, anything? Why have information technologies proven difficult to govern? And what assurances can governance provide for the billions of people who rely on information technologies every day? Drawing together several distinct bodies of literature—including multiple strands of governance theory, actor–network theory, and scholarship on sociotechnical regimes—this paper conceptualizes networked action on a spectrum from uncertain governance to governing uncertainty. I advance a twofold argument. First, I argue that networks can better govern uncertainty as they become more able not only to enroll actors in a collective agenda, but also to cut ties with those who seek to undermine that agenda. And second, I argue that the dominant conception of information security governance, which emphasizes governing uncertainty through risk management, in practice devolves to uncertain governance. This is largely because information technologies have evolved toward greater connectedness—and with it, greater vulnerability—creating a regime of insecurity. This evolution is illustrated using the history of the US government’s efforts to govern information security.

On the Definition of Cultivated Ecology

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-201
Author(s):  
Diane E. Pataki ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Urban Ecology ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultivated Plants ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
History Of

Sagoff (2017) critiqued the exclusion of cultivated plants and animals from much of the body of work in ecology. However, there is a history of attempting to incorporate cultivated landscapes in ecology that goes back at least two decades, particularly in urban ecology. The subdiscipline of urban ecology has received relatively little attention in philosophy, although some of its methodologies, such as coupled human-natural systems research, have been critiqued. Here I will attempt to explicitly address the conceptual limitations in ecology for studying cultivated ecosystems and evaluate these limitations in the context of coupled human-natural systems and socioecological research, urban ecosystem services frameworks, and actor-network theory. I argue that the history of cultivated organisms is highly germane to their ecology, necessitating the incorporation of human agency into ecological theory. However, human agency and nonhuman nature exist along a continuum of nature vs. culture. As a result, dualistic approaches to studying the role of human agency in ecosystem processes, such as socioecology and ecosystem services assessments—which explicitly separate humans from nature—have had limited success in cultivated landscapes. More fully integrated frameworks such as actor-network theory may better address ecological research questions in cultivated landscapes.

scholarly journals Informaatiokäytäntöjen tutkimuksen teoreettisia ja metodologisia mahdollisuuksia

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaakko Louhivuori
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Information Practices ◽  
History Of

In this article I ponder how the actor-network theory and the practice-based studies can be applied in information practices research. The history of the actor-network theory goes back to the 1970s and 1980s and is linked to sociology as well as science and technology studies. Actually it was not intended to be so much a theory, but more like a method of combining actors into a wider story without preconceived ideas or laws of thought. In recent years, information practice research has paid more attention to the practice-based studies than to the actor-network theory. The quest for the full recognition of nonhuman factors as a part of information generation and its utilisation can be observed as a common ground with these two approaches. I believe, that if we apply the components of the actor-network theory and practice-based studies, we will get a more holistic view of information practices. These views and results may be used to review information practices and to develop the information processes further.

scholarly journals The Mummy's Complaint: An Object-Biography of the Egyptian Mummies in New Zealand Museums, 1885-1897

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ryan Brown-Haysom
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Object Biography ◽  
History Of

<p>Recent years have seen a revival of interest in material objects in the humanities generally, and in Museum Studies in particular. Although the influence of this 'material turn' is still in its early stages, one of the manifestations of the renewed interest in the 'life of things' has been the growth of interest in Actor-Network Theory, a branch of sociological analysis which attempts to reconstruct the networks of agency through which social existence is created and maintained. One of the more controversial aspects of Actor-Network Theory (or ANT) is its willingness to concede a level of agency to non-human and inanimate actors in these 'assemblages'. For Museum Studies, the relevance of this theoretical framework lies in the analysis of museums both as assemblages in their own right, and as actants in a network of other sites, institutions, technologies, ideologies, and objects. Museum objects, long viewed as inert, can be seen instead as participants in the 'shuffle of agency' that constitutes institutions and inducts them into wider patterns of social activity.  This dissertation uses the case study of Egyptian mummies in New Zealand museums to gauge the usefulness of an ANT-based approach to writing the 'life-history of objects'. Borrowing the concept of the 'object biography' from Kopytoff and Appadurai, it attempts to construct such a history of the five complete Egyptian mummies in New Zealand’s public museums. Using the principles of Actor-Network Theory, it attempts to trace the ways in which mummies have been constituted as 'meaningful objects' through the examination of the ways in which they have moved through different assemblages, both globally and within New Zealand, during the twelve years from 1885 to 1897. This was the period during which all five Egyptian mummies entered New Zealand collections, traversing networks of imperialism, scientific knowledge, religious knowledge, and exchange. In the course of their movement through these diverse assemblages, the meaning of mummies – inside and outside the public museum – could be construed in radically different ways.  This dissertation considers the usefulness of such a methodology for Museum Studies and Material Culture Studies, and considers the potential benefits and pitfalls of writing about assemblages for those who want to consider the life-history of objects.</p>

Radicalization and Recruitment

2018 ◽  
pp. 322-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Masys
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Percent Increase ◽  
Network Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
Systems View

As described in the GTI, ISIL's transnational tactics in combination with lone actor attacks inspired by the group drove an increase in terrorism to its highest levels ever across Europe and many OECD countries (upwards of a 650 percent increase in deaths since 2014). The attacks by ISIL in Paris, Brussels, and in Turkey's capital Ankara, were amongst the most devastating in the history of these countries and reflect a disturbing return of the transnational group-based terrorism. Actor network theory (ANT) was applied as a systems lens to open the “blackbox” of terrorism. The systems view facilitated by ANT highlighted how dynamic networked actors shape radicalization through the actor network process of translation. This chapter applies functional resonance accident model (FRAM) methodology. The FRAM method was used to analyze how radicalization activities (as described through ANT) take place and where and how intervention strategies can be designed to interfere with the radicalization process.

Primatology of Science: On the Birth of Actor-Network Theory from Baboon Field Observations

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-105
Author(s):  
Nicolas Langlitz
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Dominant Species ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Original Question

This article situates actor-network theory in the history of evolutionary anthropology. In the 1980s, this attempt at explaining the social through the mediation of nonhumans received important impulses from Bruno Latour’s conversations with primatologist Shirley Strum. In a re-articulation of social evolutionism, they proposed that the utilization of objects distinguished humans from baboons and that the use of a growing number of objects set industrialized human populations apart from hunter-gatherers, enabling the formation of larger collectives. While Strum’s and Latour’s early work presented baboons as almost human and suggested that we moderns had never been modern, the Anthropocene has reawakened curiosity about the original question of anthropology: how do modern humans, including modern scientists, differ from premoderns and animals? This 18th-century question is gaining new significance and urgency as we recognize our transmutation into a super-dominant species. But the answer might not lie solely in the use of more objects.

scholarly journals Breve estudo sobre o materialismo e a Teoria do Ator-Rede com foco em sua corrente novo materialista

2019 ◽  
pp. 238-255
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Human Action ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Difference

This paper aims at analyzing the stream in Actor-Network Theory close to New Materialism from the perspective of its materialistic roots, briefly, outlining the history of materialism, regarding the modifications represented by Marx’s theory and the difference of the latter to New Materialism. Whilst Marx distances from Hegel and Feuerbach by giving centrality to labor, the New Materialism, inspired by Deleuze’s work, attempts to depart from both modernity and post-modernity, assuming the inexistence of any dyad. In this actor-network Materialist Semiotics, the matter no longer represents something inert waiting for human action, a being endowed with vitality; from a rational over an irrational being. Lastly, based on the distinction between these two materialisms, we present a critic of the Actor-Network Theory based on historical materialism.

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