The Associations between Technologies and Societies: The Utility of Actor-Network Theory

This article discusses the strengths and limitations of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as a framework for Science and Technology Studies (STS). While ANT was originally rooted in Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) approaches, ANT has become a theoretical framework commonly used by scholars in nume...

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Luis Fernando, Barón Porras
Gómez, Ricardo
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2016
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Universidad ICESI
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Ciencia política
Political science
Ciencia y tecnología
Tecnología de la información
Movimientos sociales
relaciones de poder
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title The Associations between Technologies and Societies: The Utility of Actor-Network Theory
spellingShingle The Associations between Technologies and Societies: The Utility of Actor-Network Theory
Ciencia política
Political science
Ciencia y tecnología
Tecnología de la información
Movimientos sociales
relaciones de poder
title_short The Associations between Technologies and Societies: The Utility of Actor-Network Theory
title_full The Associations between Technologies and Societies: The Utility of Actor-Network Theory
title_fullStr The Associations between Technologies and Societies: The Utility of Actor-Network Theory
title_full_unstemmed The Associations between Technologies and Societies: The Utility of Actor-Network Theory
title_sort The Associations between Technologies and Societies: The Utility of Actor-Network Theory
dc.creator.fl_str_mv Luis Fernando, Barón Porras
Gómez, Ricardo
dc.contributor.author.spa.fl_str_mv Luis Fernando, Barón Porras
Gómez, Ricardo
dc.subject.spa.fl_str_mv Ciencia política
Political science
Ciencia y tecnología
Tecnología de la información
Movimientos sociales
relaciones de poder
topic Ciencia política
Political science
Ciencia y tecnología
Tecnología de la información
Movimientos sociales
relaciones de poder
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While ANT was originally rooted in Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) approaches, ANT has become a theoretical framework commonly used by scholars in numerous disciplines beyond STS, including Information Sciences. Although some scholars consider ANT to be now closer to sociomateriality studies, we claim that ANT differs from sociomateriality in that it suggests a different notion of power. In ANT, power results from actors’ associations enacted into being rather than the sociomateriality claim that power results from existing power structures. We draw from our work on information technologies and social movements to illustrate this important distinction, and to show how ANT can be further strengthened by including the study of histories, memories and trajectories, in order to better understand power relations as associations enacted into being. 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