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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Actor Network Theory (ANT)"”.

  1. Developing electronic participation framework for public policy formulation in Malaysia

    Salamat, Mohamad AiziUniversiti Utara Malaysia2015

    … interviews, observations, and analysis of relevant documents were the methods used in this study. Actor Network Theory (ANT) from the socio-technological perspective was applied in this study in order to analyze the development of the e-participation framework. The proposed e-participation …

    uthm Repository record

  2. Post-Literacy: Designing Writing Curricula around Emerging Literate Activities

    Bowers, George BretBowling Green State University2013

    … on digital and multimodal literacies, I utilize Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to analyze how digital and multimodal literacies emerge in one first-year writing curriculum. By using ANT, it is my goal to identify the curricular and institutional structures that limit and facilitate the emergence of …

    ohiolink Repository record

  3. Searching for SETI: The Social Construction of Aliens and the Quest for a Technological Mythos

    Bozeman, John MarvinVirginia Tech2015

    This dissertation uses Actor Network Theory (ANT) and Stark and Bainbridge's rational choice theory of religion to analyze an established but controversial branch of science and technology, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Of particular interest are the cultural, and sometimes …

    vt Repository record

  4. Klonopin Collectifs, the “Charms” of Diverted Pharmaceuticals and Other Pleasures of Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use

    Bundy, Henry Erikson

    … have fixed, inherent euphorigenic qualities. Quantitative analysis of substance abuse depends on drugs acting predictably. However, this conception of pharmaceuticals has failed to account for the absence of pleasure when prescription drugs are taken as part of corrective or curative regimes. …

    montana-tech Repository record

  5. Klonopin Collectifs, the “Charms” of Diverted Pharmaceuticals and Other Pleasures of Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use

    Bundy, Henry Erikson

    … have fixed, inherent euphorigenic qualities. Quantitative analysis of substance abuse depends on drugs acting predictably. However, this conception of pharmaceuticals has failed to account for the absence of pleasure when prescription drugs are taken as part of corrective or curative regimes. …

    montana Repository record

  6. Four Festivals and a City: A critique of Actor-Network Theory as an approach to understanding the emergence and development of Flagship Festivals in Kilkenny from 1964 to 2004

    Monagle, JamesNational University of Ireland Maynooth2009

    This thesis is a critique of the suitability of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as an approach to understanding the emergence and development of four flagship festivals in Kilkenny from 1964 to 2004. The thesis compares Kilkenny’s four catalyst festivals (The Kilkenny Beer Festival, Kilkenny Arts Week, …

    maynooth Repository record

  7. A Sociotechnical Network Analysis of Bluegrass Practitioners and Instruments: Competing Definitions, Motivating Authenticities, and Tradition-Respecting Innovations

    Carroll, William AnthonyVirginia Tech2025

    This study applies a sociotechnical network analysis based on Actor Network Theory (ANT) to the bluegrass musical community. Three definitional emphases are identified within bluegrass; these emphases structure and bound the network based on instrumental practices, historical progression, or the …

    vt Repository record

  8. Perceptions of tertiary educators and their students toward the integration of AI mentors to support learning

    Iles, Howard Robert EdwardEastern Institute of Technology (EIT)2019

    … of AI Mentors to support learning. The quantitative case study used surveys to elicit teachers’ and students perceptions; the underlying paradigm that is used in this research is Bruno Latour’s Actor-network theory (ANT). What was found is that both students and staff were open and …

    eit-nz Repository record

  9. Volkswagen Cars, Politics, and Culture in the Post-1978 China: The Social Construction of Success

    Qiu, XiaolanVirginia Tech2012

    … theories of technology studies, especially the actor-network theory (ANT), takes into account technical, socioeconomic, political, or cultural factors simultaneously. By selecting one of VW’s successful joint ventures with China – Shanghai Volkswagen (SVW) – as a case to do in-depth …

    vt Repository record

  10. Investigating the effects of power relations on the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning through the lens of Actor Network Theory : the case of MESAIR

    Kashmeery, T2026

    … Foucault’s analysis of power embedded within Actor Network Theory (ANT), the concept of ANT-Foucault was developed. This concept could provide valuable insights for the body of knowledge by proposing an alternative way of analysing IS and ERP implementation projects in organisations. Although, …

    salford Repository record

  11. Opening the black box of the health technology assessment process at NICE

    Noble, Stacey Leigh McPhailUniversity of Strathclyde2016

    … from diverse human contributors in HTA, is Actor Network Theory (ANT). In particular, Callon's (1986b) Sociology of Translation is used along with key insights from Latour (1987, 2005). This is underpinned with an interpretative approach to defining calculative practices.The empirical …

    strathclyde Repository record

  12. Exploring Educational Initiatives in Nanotechnology Networks

    Knefel, Ann Margaret CallenderVirginia Tech2004

    … through a sociological analysis of the network of actors, events, rhetorical strategies, practices and instrumentation that went into the construction and growth of nanotechnology. Relying heavily on actor-network theory (ANT), this study focused on a small part of the total network …

    vt Repository record

  13. Transforming musical performance: activating the audience as digital collaborators

    York, A.University of Westminster2020

    … been utilised to deliver the programming and networking requirements. A major innovation stemming from this project has been the development of the Deeper Love Soundpad App, a sample playback app for Apple smartphones and iPads, in collaboration with Dr. Rob Toulson. The theoretical background …

    westminster Repository record

  14. "No to the bear" : contested power and truths behind the reintroduction of brown bears in the Pyrenees.

    Knight, TonyUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David2011

    … threatened. Fuelled by culturally constructed anthropocentric ‘needs’, the unrelenting march of neoliberal capitalism dramatically manifests dichotomous views and discourses on the environment and sustainable development. Always complex, and often conflictual, the human-environment …

    uwtsd Repository record

  15. WEB 2.0: THE INDUSTRY OF PARTICIPATION: An Actor-Network Theory Account of Myspace in the Case of Underground Music

    Rossi, CamillaUniversità degli studi di Trento2010

    … to a long history of studies on the web and networked communication technologies that often have claimed a “revolutionary” role of the next new medium, a history that usually saw the failure of those claims, which should be challenged once and for all. However, many critical studies that …

    trento Repository record

  16. United Kingdom National Health Services: a case study of workforce transformation in an integrated care organisation using actor-network theory

    Altabaibeh, A.Middlesex University2018

    … interviews with purposefully selected informants and documentary analyses. Actor Network Theory (ANT) was used as a theoretical framework to guide the research process. Findings: Though it could be explicit for health organisations integration as a special form of change, this study suggests …

    middlesex Repository record

  17. The Co-Construction of Properties in a Machinic-Complex: A study of the Car and Dunlop Pneumatic Tyres 1900-1925

    Woolaghan, George2006

    … is theorised by engaging with certain aspects of Actor-Network theory (ANT), in particular, Akrich's notion of 'reciprocal or mutual adjustment', which is deployed in relation to design, manufacture and use, and 'inscription', which is applied to advertising. Advertising is also discussed using …

    arts-london Repository record

  18. Surfing Haïti, and a new wave of travel writing

    Bleakley, Sam2016

    … of, and engagement with, Haïti’s coastline. Actor-network-theory (ANT) provides the methodological and theoretical framework to explore and explain how the key topics - surf, travel (Haïti) and writing - are brought into productive conversation through translation across persons, artefacts …

    arts-london Repository record

  19. Researching APEL routes to becoming professionally recognised as a teacher in Higher Education

    Pokorny, H.University of Westminster2020

    … to professional recognition based on experience. Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) was used to analyse the data from the study which was in the form of interviews and portfolios. Key to ANT is the process of symmetry. That is, the principle that human and non-human elements of a network should be …

    westminster Repository record

  20. Managing business change projects: a social practice perspective

    O'Leary, TimUniversity of Southampton2010

    … by the people working on them, and for improved theory based on that. This research seeks to explore whether more effective approaches to delivering benefits from business change in organisations could be developed by taking a social practice perspective - focusing on the dynamic and complex …

    soton Repository record

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