Dear Actor-Network theory group members, Has anyone done any work around extrapolation of Labtour's work to expain complexity as the actor networks as part of...
Hello, I wonder if there are any practical suggestions on how one could use ANT for enrolling an organization into an ISO 9001-way of thinking and the inscribe...
Hello, I'm doing a PhD on the role of information systems (information infrastructures) in creating organizational learning (from the perspective of Total...
Actor-network theory Returning to the theoretical implications of the research questions, I start with a discussion of actor-network theory because it provides...
Andrew Bolger
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Jan 16, 2006 2:07 pm
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... John my thesis was on social work and I used ANT to compare case making as a practical activity in community care with the scientific case-making studied ...
This is an area I'm interested in; impact of, appropriation of, quality systems (on software development organizations) conforming to a particular standard...
Hello, ** Hello John. Here goes your answer in a very simple way. Excuse me my mistakes in english ... I'm doing a PhD on the role of information systems...
Hello Marcus, Thanks for your kind and interesting comments. I have read a few papers by Professor Hanseth and some of people within his circle, finding...
Hello Allen, Thanks for your interesting reply. Could you please explain the term GAMP? Is it a framwork similar to ISO9001? I've chosen ISO9001 because...
Hello Andrew, Thanks for the excerpts from your thesis. You refer many interesting examples of how various aspects of ANT is being used for interpreting...
Hi John I think ANT (unlike astrology, tea leaves and Nostradamus) makes no claim at all for predictive powers and is therefore probably not suitable as a ...
Hello Allen, I believe Foucault said something about the implicit prediction hidden in history writing. When writing our personal histories, we can chose to...
Fellows, are you speaking of the same kind of things? It may seem too elementary but... Scientific research, research practice and research methodology are not...
Hello Nanci, Are you saying that consultants do proper scientific research, consistent with Popper's definitions, while people in academia are only producing...
Paraphrasing Bruno Latour in his "Science in Action": "(...) The Lab auxiliar, the one brings the rats, the one is making who finances the project; Who is...
Hello Marcus, In the final chapter in "Action in Science", where Latour talks about centres of calculations, there seem to be some insights on how to build a...
Hi John, there are a lot of distinct issues I think you are bringing into the discussion. My sense is that ANT is a productive way of theorizing humans in all...
... In my opinion no. I think the things termed ANT are however really quite useful approaches I might employ to answer questions I have about the course of...
Marcus, Allen, Andrew Are you experiencing this same odd feeling? Is this conversation also tasting like a somewhat sarcastic dispute for you? Nanci...
Hello Nanci, I like the way make comments to the ANT tribe (this group) rather than responding to my questions. I now feel like Latour doing etnographic...
Thanks for you reply, Allen. You work in software engineering? Don't you think ANT could give some input for information systems design? If you don't believe...
Hi Allen, Thanks for your kind words. I agree in what you say about ANT being a framework for discussing individuals, groups, organizations, societies,...
... Hello John ... No. The best way is to think, like an anthropologist, that they have a authority argument, that sometimes make them the representation of a...
Marcus Vinicius
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Jan 18, 2006 3:57 pm
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Dear Marcus, Thanks for some very insightful comments and suggestions. The parable of the monkey and the apple tree is brilliant. Is it taken from one of the...
Hello Nanci Indeed I agree with you, I think as a community (focused on supporting the understanding interpretation and development of actor network theory) we...
It¹s great that this group is suddenly filling my mail-box. I think the question ³ANT was is it good for?² is interesting. On the face of it all these ANT...
Hello John I don't recall the quote but I think latour and others have taken up this argument you are making viz whether ANT is really a theory because it has...
Thanks for an excellent reply, Allen. So, in principle there is no difference between ANT, Star Trek and Harry Potter? It is just a lens for viewing the world...
Thanks for a brilliant explanation, Andrew. Perhaps John Law is deliberatly mysterious and saying contradictory thing in order to help spread the cult of ANT?...
Shewhart and Deming, the philosophers of quality management, based their thinking upon the process-ontology of Whitehead and the pragmatism of James, Peirce...
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