This paper presents a comparative analysis of two attempts to computerize the dispatch system (known as CAD) for the London Ambulance Service (LAS). These two cases are relatively well known and the first attempt has been characterized as a „failure‟ and the second as a „success‟. However, this analysis focuses on the human elements and uses Actor Network Theory (ANT) as the comparative interpr...

0736-5853/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd doi:10.1016/j.tele.2010.09.003 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +55 21 2579 6597. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (A. Tel This paper presents the results of the analysis of processes aimed at digital inclusion in the municipality of Piraí in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. This city was chosen for this purpose due to the notoriety achieved by th...

Scholars contend actor network theory (ANT) could be an effective framework for analyzing the reproduction of social systems where agency material objects plays a role. By puzzling established explanations “craft” beer’s emergence, this paper seeks to develop such framework. Craft beer offers compelling case, since theories as population ecology and neolocalism only partially explain its emerge...

The narrative of a line research from feminist perspective involves describing the situated practices that contribute to understanding inequality in construction social relationships build links between human and nonhuman materialities. This paper aims link epistemology actor–network theory expert network produces, sustains manages design chemical zone fiber optic sensor (FOS) new smart materia...

This paper explores the importance of incorporating the socioecological realities of alternative networks into analyses of rural development. Cultural theory is examined, which provides a base upon which rural development can identify difference in worldviews based on difference in sociological conditions and environmental phenomena. Actor-oriented theory problematizes the ideal types of cultur...

The application of complexity theory crosses many domains thereby reflecting the multidisciplinary perspective inherent within the concept. Within the social sciences, the advent of complexity theory has facilitated a re-examination of the concept of system, ‘...rejecting old assumptions about equilibrium in favour of the analysis of dynamic processes of systems far from equilibrium, and respec...

Drawing on case files from a Canadian provincial review board tasked with determining the disposition of persons found ‘not criminally responsible account mental disorder’, we explore role forensic hospital report in production medico-legal risk knowledges. Through detailed study, show how report's content and particular material form allow Board to produce ‘significantly threatening individual...

Governance of the Internet is a matter global importance and concern. The multi-stakeholder (MS) multilateral (ML) forms have been presented as two competing plausible models governance. Drawing on actor–network theory (ANT) building an interpretive case study rich archival data, this paper examines how focal actor’s (i.e. U.S. government’s) beliefs influence choice governance form. It further ...

This article makes use of Innovation Translation and Actor-Network Theory to re-analyse a study of Internet usage by academics in Business Schools in Public Universities in Thailand. There are a number of approaches to modelling technology adoption and this article begins by examining these and demonstrating how innovation translation can be useful. The original research, on which this article ...

The participation of people in social networks is undeniably a contemporary phenomenon that presents as a characteristic not only the flow of explicit information in data form, natural and complex, but also some information (data) from the network’s own movement. It is in this context that this article fits with the purpose of revealing information that is implied in participatory movements of ...