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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"actor-networks"”.
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Producing Knowledge about Astronaut Health Risks: Navigating Interdisciplinary Actor-Networks
… the home of mission control for NASA. Applied Actor-Network Theory using a stage analysis shows how various human and non-human actors create this knowledge, constructing, combining, and passing facts across disciplinary boundaries about health risks. A normative analysis of informant …
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Actor Networks in Health Care: Translating Values into Measures of Hospital Performance
… costs, diminishing service quality and new actors, is changing, almost on a daily basis. Reports issued by the Institute of Medicine raise quality issues such as avoidable errors and underuse/overuse of services; other studies document regional variation in care. Improvement in the quality …
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Betting on technology : the diffusion of mobile live-streaming apps within news startup actor-networks
… combines the diffusion of innovations and actor-network theoretical models to present a detailed explanation of how the live-streaming mobile apps Meerkat and Periscope were adopted at two digital news startups, Mashable and The Huffington Post; and it identifies the complex confluence of …
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Getting to know QM(s) : exploring the actor-networks of quantitative methods across higher education social science subjects
… Science disciplines and the role of non-human actors. This thesis begins to fill this gap in the literature by adopting Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to explore the learning-teaching of QM(s) within four Higher Education Social Science subjects. To investigate the actor-networks that QM(s) is …
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Conceptualizing horizontal cooperation in regional socio-ecological systems through actor networks and collective action: the case of Berg River catchment
… collaborative, non-hierarchical interactions of actors across sectors, modes of governance and spatial scales. It can allow diverse actors to deal with the complexity and uncertainties that characterize SESs and to co-produce public benefits. The research question is, When does horizontal …
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Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs) : αλγόριθμοι αναγνώρισης γεγονότων βασισμένων σε τεχνικές ασαφούς λογικής με πρόβλεψη για απαίτηση απόκρισης πραγματικού χρόνου
… δώσει μια νέα απάντηση στο πρόβλημα του node-to-actor coordination. Η κατανομή των sensors σε συγκεκριμένους actors λαμβάνοντας υπόψιν, τις δυνατότητες των actors αλλά και την ανομοιογένεια του δικτύου, οδηγεί στην πρόταση ενός νέου αλγορίθμου sensor-to-actor coordination που κάνει χρήση του …
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Adaptive dynamic programming with eligibility traces and complexity reduction of high-dimensional systems
… neural network structure for the critic and actor networks. In the fourth and fifth papers, a stability analysis for a model-free action-dependent HDP(λ) is demonstrated with batch- and online-implementation learning, respectively. The sixth work combines two different gradient prediction …
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From street corner to smartphone: assessing the prospects of socio-technical transitions in Cape Town's transport sector
… Applying a sociotechnical approach known as Actor-Network Theory (“ANT”), I describe the various actors and relationships that enable access to this location. These descriptions reveal six insights: the central role of the road and private automobile actor-networks in conceptualising how the …
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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
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, …
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Volkswagen Cars, Politics, and Culture in the Post-1978 China: The Social Construction of Success
… 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 …
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The performance of information systems implementation outcomes: the case of an enterprise system implementation in a South African University
… promoting a cumulative list of critical success factors which they believe should improve the success rate. These efforts, however, have not yielded much improvement considering the vast amount of research in this domain. This inconsistency might be as a result of the representational …
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Accelerating Innovation: Assessing Nanotechnologies, Prototypes and Research Teams
… and Technology Studies (STS) concepts from Actor-Network Theory, I study the founding era of this twenty-first century laboratory-based community, from 2002-2007. Actor-Network concepts of enrollment and translation, described by Bruno Latour, and heterogeneous engineering, described by John …
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Language in the Mirror: Language Ideologies, Schooling and Islam in Qatar
… economy." In chapter two, I outline the actor-networks of the "knowledge economy" that create a development hierarchy between English, the language of the de-localized "international" citizen, and Arabic, the language of the "local" Qatari. In chapter three, I trace how privatization of …
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Maiden’s Fashion As Eternal Becomings: Victorian Maidens and Sugar Sweet Cuties Donning Japanese Street Fashion in Japan and North America
… aesthetics; and formation of social groups and actor-networks have bearing on how an individual experiences the fashion. This work deconstructs Lolita style by using Japanese cultural concepts like shōjo (‘girl’ as a genderless being), otome (maiden), kawaii (cuteness) to explore the underlying …
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Networks of Nature: Stories of Natural History Film-making at the BBC
… conceptions of the public sphere as additional actors influencing the relationships between nature and culture. This history charts the construction of the actor networks of the Natural History Unit by film-makers and broadcasters as they seek to incorporate and exclude certain practices, …
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Climate Change Policy Narratives and Pastoralism in the Horn of Africa: New Concerns, Old Arguments?
… other resources remain contested by different actors. Through content and discourse analyses of national policies, supplemented by interviews with key informants, this research examines the discourses and narratives around pastoralism found within contemporary policy in Ethiopia and Kenya, the …
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Mobility, *Being, Global Network: A Technography of Laptops and Cellphones
Mobility refers to the movement of actors and actants in ever-shifting arrays that comprise actor-networks; movement in physical terms, but also conceptual movements such as transience in identity. Being refers to a Heideggerian state of 'pure being', moments of revelation in which the truth about …
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Dynamics and valence of actor engagement
In the increasingly networked service networks, actors continually interact and engage with one another to craft their value propositions, co-create their service experience, and contribute to the formation of system institutions. This thesis is comprised of three papers which study different …
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Regulating the marketing practices of the unhealthy food and beverage industry
… the policy inertia. Finally, strengthening actor networks to champion and support the policy through the political process could contribute to overcoming policy inertia.
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A web of relations: co-production arrangements in urban sanitation infrastructure provision in informal settlements in Arusha City, Tanzania
Many city governments and actors have tested approaches or models and technological developments to address urban service crises. But this has tended to be without much success, as the service delivery gap keeps widening, leading to governance failure. One response to this decline in governance …
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