This list appears to be very quiet, perhaps someone can respond to a question I am formulating: regarding enrollment and relations which make actor-networks...
Dear Diane It's a rather complex question, this you have posed. And it demands a rather complex answer. I think the State is, in fact, another actor in this...
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Diane Westerhuis
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Feb 14, 2002 3:05 am
Thanks to Nancy for that response. I am still concerned about how to think of the state as an actor and as a network (as in Law 1992) but in this case i am...
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Jose Figueiredo
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Feb 14, 2002 3:06 am
... dear Diane, the State is to general an entity. In terms of acting and action, behavior, values, goals, you can't consider the State as a thing, but as a...
Dear Diane, First, actors or nodes in actor networks are not totally free to act because their roles are assigned by creators (scenario writers) of actor world...
Diane Is it any use considering the 'state' as a black box - using the old systems science term? You could then ignore any internal workings of the system and...
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Diane Westerhuis
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Feb 16, 2002 1:57 am
Thanks to Kevin and this list - the discussion certainly helps me to clarify - yes it is a black box - input neoliberal policies, output changing universities?...
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Diane Westerhuis
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Feb 16, 2002 2:00 am
Thanks to John Kim - question regarding this scripting of roles, and possible instability - John Kim wrote: creators of actor-world use various strategies or...
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Diane Westerhuis
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Feb 17, 2002 11:31 pm
Jose, I'm with you, the state should be more concerned with welfare, but in our neo-liberal Australian state we are seeing the decline of the welfare state,...
Dear Diane, Diane wrote: Are those intermediaries political ... Creators of actor world try to coordinate the circulation of inscriptions (I use inscriptions...
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Reshma Gandecha
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Apr 19, 2002 5:05 pm
hello there, I have started a research in actor network theory as framework to realize local implementation strategies by electronic prescribing and patient ...
Hi Reshma, have you read Susan Leigh Star's and Geoff Bowker's book Sorting Things Out (MIT Press 1999). It's about classification of diseases and it contains...
Hello My name is Cristina and I'm a master degree student in FEUP ( engineering faculty of Oporto). I'm starting a research work about knowledge management...
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Diane Westerhuis
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Jul 1, 2002 4:54 am
In response to Christina, who asked about starting a research work about knowledge management under the actor-network ... must reads include these two on...
Dear Cristina, I have one article on ANT and knowledge management: Richard Hull: "Actor Network and Conduct: The Discipline and Practices of Knowledge...
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Joćo Carlos Timote...
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Jul 1, 2002 4:54 am
Hi! Start by finding out what has been inscribed on the network of actors followed by the series of translations occured to clear up your research question. Be...
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John Law
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Jul 1, 2002 9:43 pm
There is some work by Danish doctoral students (or recent PhDs) on knowledge management and innovation. People like Torben Jensen, Niels Nickelsen and Peter...
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Jose Figueiredo
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Jul 1, 2002 9:43 pm
Catarina, I would suggest to use the google and look for Actor-Network Theory. You will find lots of interesting things. The you can use ANT with translation, ...
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Reshma Gandecha
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Jul 1, 2002 9:43 pm
Hi there, Is anyone doing any pubhlising work around actor network theory in LIS( Local Implemenation Strategies) especially in UK healthcare setting. I would...
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Maria Lurdes
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Jul 3, 2002 12:14 am
Dear Cristina, I have just seen your message. Besides the suggestions (and the good advice...) by Joćo Mavimbe, I would also read Michel Callon, Some Elements...
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Joćo Carlos Timote...
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Jul 3, 2002 12:14 am
Hi Reshma! I am doing research on vaccination in a developing country seting under the actor network work framework. Maybe is not exactly what are you looking...
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Maria Lurdes
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Jul 3, 2002 9:32 pm
Dear Joao, I am working on the health sector, on health and environment and on cancer research, and I have many links to Mozambique. Let me know more about...
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Joćo Carlos Timote...
calu@...
Jul 4, 2002 10:56 pm
Hi Joao or maybe Maria! Im doing research on the vaccination program specially related to the constraints around the vaccination process in Mozambique as part...
To the actor-network theory group? Has anyone looked at actor network in local implementation strategies- within the Information for Health? I am looking at...
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Reshma Gandecha
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Jul 17, 2002 10:38 pm
Thanks for your message Joao, You said that I should ask John Law regarding this. Is there an email address for him? Can you email as I would like to discuss...
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Joćo Carlos Timote...
calu@...
Jul 23, 2002 4:23 am
Hi Reshma! Not a problem. We could discuss that. calu@... or calu@... To reach John Law, try to "google" his e-mail address. Else post the...
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Law, John
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Jul 23, 2002 4:23 am
Papers to check out include: de Laet, Marianne, and Annemarie Mol (2000), 'The Zimbabwe Bush Pump: Mechanics of a Fluid Technology', Social Studies of Science,...
A lot of what I have read of ANT is to do with technological innovation and change. I am an industrial designer and a lot of this kind of design is to do with...
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Jose Figueiredo
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Jul 25, 2002 5:46 pm
hi, maybe you can have a look at: Akrich, M. and Latour, B., (1994), 'A summary of a convenient vocabulary for the semiotics of human and non-human...
Thanks Jose Figuerdo, I will look up the material you suggest. As an aside: is Portugal developing a monopoly on ANT? In June and July of last year I was in...
