This study deploys Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to understand how educational standards take shape. To exemplify the inherently collective nature of and contingency in process standardisation, this will present a case CEFR-J project launched by group Japanese university academics modify Common European Framework Reference for Languages (CEFR) English-language teaching learning Japan. Drawing on d...

This paper explores the knowledge potential of Norwegian metal-detected assemblage through conceptual framework thinking. Drawing on concepts actual/virtual, affect and coding, combined with actor-network theory (ANT) notion inscriptions, I discuss assemblage’s realm for new archaeological knowledge. identify articulate constituents assemblage, identifying inscriptions coding mechanisms affecti...

Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is an ontological approach, emerging from science and technology studies. As frame, ANT proposes that the work of does not differ other social processes, sociality should be understood as a priori knowledge. Instead, offers lens to see assemblage social, technical, conceptional, textual processes entangled with human non-human entities by looking at their material nat...

Effective rural governance is the foundation for achieving revitalization and promoting modernization of China’s system capacity in new era. The elucidation influencing factors driving pathways underlying effective has significant importance facilitating advancement revitalization. Drawing upon Actor-Network Theory (ANT), this study introduces an analytical framework “human actor dimension—non-...

In this essay, Joseph Barton’s controversial congressional investigation of the well-known ‘‘hockey-stick’’ study of climate change, produced by Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes, is analyzed though the critical lens of actor-network theory. Turn­ ing to the works of Bruno Latour, Michel Callon, and John Law, this essay illustrates how the hockey-stick node of this rhetorical cl...

This paper focuses on the seemingly routine but essential aspects of network formation by actors in an E-government context. A qualitative case study is used to explore portal development in public healthcare. The theoretical framework applied is Actor-Network Theory (ANT). The research question is: What factors contribute to the enrolment of strategic local actors in technology development in ...

This paper takes a look at the political issues involved in the implementation of health information system (HIS) in resource constrained countries. By doing a comparative case, we attempted to understand how two different implementation processes took shape in two countries – Tanzania and Vietnam using Actor network theory (ANT) as our analytica lens. The study suggests that by mobilizing an a...

Decision-making about innovative change in high-risk networks is exceptionally difficult because system failure may result in catastrophe. We adopt a historical method to compare the US and Soviet choices in their nuclear attack submarine programs between 1970 and 1996 and to surface their complex political, technological, and operational relations. One program achieved high reliability in the ...

This study draws on interviews with forty-nine members of a biomedical research community in the UK that is involved in negotiating data sharing and access. During an interview, an interviewee used the words "ethical moment" to describe a confrontation between collaborators in relation to data sharing. In this article, I use this as a lens for thinking about relations between "the conceptual an...