Contextual studies of information technology diffusion offer an opportunity to understand both the production and diffusion of IT innovations. Using a case of mobile-TV in the United Kingdom, this paper uses actor network theory (ANT) to render context as the various cross-industry groups and technologies enrolled and translated into the construction and reinvention of the mobile-TV services. B...

This paper addresses this key issue by enabling the participation of the citizen in formulating Malaysia’s public policy through e-participation. Currently, there is no e-participation framework for citizen to involve in Malaysia’s public policy formulation. Most public policy formulate by certain group of expertise but the feedback from citizen still lacking. The research embraces the socio-te...

Assuming symmetry between human and nonhuman actors is a tenet of actor-network theory (ANT), i.e., an actor, anyone or anything that modifies a state of affairs. This symmetric perspective entails granting agency attributes to both human and nonhuman actors, an approach that has been often criticised. By means of a combination of research observation and participation, the use of electronic ma...

Bruno Latour’s line of thinking is marked by the Actor-Network Theory (ANT), which contemplates relationships between humans, non-humans and other actors. Among non-human elements are technical artifacts or, in words, objects. In thought, this article aims to explain what concerns ontology such Through analysis some texts that author dedicated topic comparing it with Simondon’s technique, we ar...

To achieve effective stakeholder governance in the context of international social accountability certification (SA8000) requires constructing a network agreement. In case study small-to-medium-sized enterprise (SME), we examine managers’ attempts at enrolling participants supply chain to investigate how they strive engage these stakeholders. We adopt actor-network theory (ANT) and sensemaking ...

Globally in healthcare, the focus is on designing and implementing national e-health solutions in an attempt to address key challenges that are plaguing healthcare delivery. However, despite the initial euphoria and notwithstanding the significant investments made, to date, many of these e-health solutions have yet to prove their success or have been complete failures. This paper presents the f...

The learning and accountability needs in a teacher education department drove the development of a novel, Web-based education accountability system (EAS). To fit the EAS with the organization, actor-network theory (ANT) was used to guide the social and technological development. In the course of this fitting, a novel multi-dimensional perspective to ANT was formalized. Four dimensions of organi...

This paper argues that in order to make use of the theoretical insights offered by the New LiteracyStudies we need to understand more about how institutions produce and privilege certain kinds of knowing – and how, in this process, they devalue or re-define the local and the vernacular for their own purposes. The specific example of the International Adult LiteracySurvey (IALS) is used to show ...

Communities of practices are more and more recognized by companies, individuals and groups as valuable places to share and create knowledge. Communities of practice have to be cultivated in order to fully create the value they may bring to their environment. They need interoperable, flexible, ubiquitous, and specific collaborative tools to support their work. Developing such tools and enabling ...

The aim of this article is to discuss the place of the Actor-Network Theory in intercultural communication. To narrow the scope of the research, the author concentrates on the role of participants in one type of intercultural exchange, namely in translation. Thus, such issues as translator(s), translation, languages, texts and units are given a detailed study in this article. An attempt will be...