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1Why doors and hinges are things to be thankful for 1 Citation Walls are a nice invention, but if there were no holes in them there would be no way to get in or out?they would be mausoleums or tombs. The problem is that if you make holes in the walls, anything and anyone can get in and out (cows, visitors, dust, rats, noise?La Halle aux Cuirs is ten meters from the Paris ring road?and, worst of all, cold?La Halle aux Cuirs is far to the north of Paris). So architects invented this hybrid: a wall hole, often called a door, which although common enough has al, technorati.com
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Actor Network Theory and Cultural Studies 1 Citation Joost van Loon introduces us to some key issues from Latour to mark the introduction of a new reading group at NTU. Bruno Latour?s Reassembling the Social has been given quite considerable attention across the social sciences. It is a provocative and somewhat controversial book that has a tendency to polarize opinions (see for example contrasting book reviews on the Space and Culture blog .) Apart from controversies, the book has also lent itself to considerable misinterpretation, which,, technorati.com
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Notiz: Bruno Latour, Information, soziale Medien 1 Citation Ich lese ? und schaue mir an ? Paris: Ville Invisible von Bruno Latour und Emilie Hermant. Den kompletten englischen Texts dieses crossmedialen Werks ? Website und Bildband ? kann man downloaden. Er führt in Latours Soziologie ein, und er ist gleichzeitig so etwas wie eine Serie von guided tours durch Paris, das sich wie jedes soziale Phänomen nur Ketten von Beobachtungen, nie einem zusammenfassenden Blick erschließt.Ich bin noch immer am Anfang der Latour-Lektüre; einerseits finde ich seine Arg, technorati.com
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1 Citation Die Actor-Network-Theorie kritisiert die Vorstellung, dass in der Gesellschaft nur Menschen handeln, die technische und andere Objekte als Instrumente benutzen. Handeln ist nur in Netzen möglich, zu denen auch Objekte, nichtmenschliche Wesen gehören. Versucht man, dieses Konzept auf den Journalismus anzuwenden, erkennt man, dass Journalisten im Web ganz anders agieren und agieren müssen als bei der Arbeit für die Zeitung oder das Fernsehen. Menschen agieren zusammen mit ObjektenWie kann ich die, technorati.com
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The long rambly update? April 09 edition! 1 Citation A lot has happened in the last few weeks: Yay! Sarah Walter and my abstract was accepted to the Association of Internet Researchers conference (IR10, Milwaukie, October 7-11). Here?s what we submitted: A Comparison of Collaboration across Two Game Contexts: Lord of the Rings Online and World of Warcraft To better understand the nature of virtual collaboration, we present analyses of high-stakes team activities, known as ?raids,? in massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). T, technorati.com
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Fundstücke: Ethnomethodologie und Computing 1 Citation Ich suche schon lange nach Verbindungen zwischen dem Thema, das mich vor allem interessiert ? welche Folgen haben Online-Medien für das Schreiben und die Literarizität? ? und theoretischen Ansätzen, die mich faszinieren, ohne das ich sie bereits durchschaue: Ethnomethodologie, Konversationsanalyse und Actor Network Theory. In der letzten Woche habe ich ein paar Spuren gefunden, die dafür sprechen, dass sich soziale Medien mithilfe dieser Ansätze tatsächlich besser verstehen lassen. Erhellend fi, technorati.com
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1 Citation "Proponents of Actor Network Theory (ANT) such as John Law (2002) and geographers such as Nigel Thrift (1996) have long argued that there are two basic approaches to space. One sees space as a container pre-existing the entities within it, and can be recognised as the projection familiar to Euclid, Descartes and what - for lack of a better word - could be termed as "the common sense opinion". Space here plays the role of a referential context - each entity within it is a priori defined byits ref, technorati.com
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Networked Beings in the Newsroom 1 Citation Joost van Loon and Emma Hemmingway are presenting a paper entitled 'Networked Beings in the Newsroom: Transactions, Translations and Transformations' at ' The State of Things: towards an economy of artifice and artefacts ' conference at the University of Leicester in April. Below they discuss the key ideas informing their paper and their research in this area: The economic turn within Actor Network Theory asks: What is the matter of associations? What flows constitute networking? The, technorati.com
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Why Facebook is the new Jurassic Park: Web 2.0 and Actor-Network Theory 1 Citation In the opening scenes of Jurassic Park when John Hammond?s invited guests embark upon their tour in the automated jeeps, they are whisked through the gargantuan ingression with the cinematography and the music creating a sense of grandeur, danger and wonderment. ?What have they got in here, King Kong?? marvels Goldlum?s (annoying) character in reference to the giant gates that kept King Kong at bay. The giant electric fences ring the park and their catastrophic failure leads to the major premise, technorati.com
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1 Citation Joost van Loon explores the 'stuff' of networking. Last week, I attended a conference in Leicester entitled The State of Things: Towards Political Economy of Artifice and Artefacts , organized by the Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (CPPE), which is situated within the School of Management at the University of Leicester. It was a really interesting conference with a wide diversity of papers and topics. One of the most unique aspects of it was that it turned out to be meeting p, technorati.com
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