to be in the broad domain of social networks. Michel Callon and Bruno Latour, STS academics of the École Supérieure des Mines de Paris, are their uncontested continental parents. We can report John Law, in Lancaster University, as the leading British key proponent of ANT from the very beginning. Lancaster University provides a lot of papers’ references and sources on ANT in their site (see refe...

A long-standing debate in the IS literature concerns the relationship between technology and organization. Is it technology that acts on organizations, or humans that determine how technology is used? Proposals for a middle way between the extremes of technological and social determinism have been put forward based on Giddens’ structuration theory, and, more recently, from actor network theory....

This article explores artistic innovations in Kūṭiyāṭṭam theater through the lens of critique developed Naṭāṅkuśa—a polemical treatise composed, perhaps, 15th century Kerala. The focus is on Naṭāṅkuśa’s fierce disapproval performance multiple roles by an actor dressed as one and same character—for example, switching from role Hanumān to that Rāma, while still Hanumān’s costume make-up. author N...

An actor-network analysis of the way in which online investors use Internet-based services has revealed a phenomenon that is not commonly reported in actor-network theory research. An aspect of the research that emerged from interviews of a wide range of online investors is a peculiar effect of changes in non-human actors on the human actors. In this paper, the authors report on the particular ...

Abstract:Despite Iran’s critical relations with USA since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Canada had often played the role of an honest broker and maintained relations with Iran, con-trary to the US. Although the Canadian Government has not viewed the Iranian regime as democratic actor, it was interested in pursuing diplomacy for moderating the Iranian Policies too. Iran and Canada relati...

The Actor Model can be used as a framework for modeling, understanding, and reasoning about, a wide range of concurrent systems. For example:  Electronic mail (e-mail) can be modeled as an Actor system. Mail accounts are modeled as Actors and email addresses as Actor addresses.  Web Services can be modeled with endpoints modeled as Actor addresses.  Objects with locks (e.g. as in Java and C#...