Actor-network theory and information systems.
Title:
Actor-network theory and information systems.
Author:
Hanseth, Ole.
ISBN:
9781845447410
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (135 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL BOARD -- Abstracts and keywords -- Guest editors' introduction Actor-network theory and information systems. What's so special? -- Tracing the trajectories of issues, and their democratic deficits, on the Web -- The nature of the Net: constructing reliability of health information on the Web -- Redefining the network: enrollment strategies in the PDA industry -- Contested artifact: technology sensemaking, actor networks, and the shaping of the Web browser -- Trojan actor-networks and swift translation -- Book review.
Abstract:
In this editorial introduction Allen Lee's definition of the information systems (IS) field is taken as the starting point: "Research in the information systems field examines more than just the technological system, or just the social system, or even the two systems side by side; in addition, it investigates the phenomena that emerge when the two interact" (Lee, A. "Editorial", MISQ, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2001, p. iii). By emphasizing the last part of this, it is argued that actor-network theory (ANT) can provide IS research with unique and very powerful tools to help us overcome the current poor understanding of the information technology (IT) artifact (Orlikowski, W. and Iacono, S., "Research commentary: desperately seeking the 'IT' in IT research - a call for theorizing the IT artifact", Information Systems Research, Vol. 10 No. 2, 2001, pp. 121-34). These tools include a broad range of concepts describing the interwoven relationships between the social.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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