Lifeblood of actants

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Life-blood of actants
Eric Monteiro Sundeep Sahay, NTNU and Univ.
of Oslo Tromsø, Midsummer Night 2000
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Contents

• The argument - well known
• Information systems / science studies
• worrying about boundaries, scope
• Ex.
• Global software outsourcing
• mobile phones
• the life on the net

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The argument

• ANT is excessively strategic/Machiavellian
• Sources
• centeredness
• one vs. multiple networks
• Respones
• ...choreographytopology.
• Pandora the slight surprise of action
  circulating reference

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Relevance for Information systems

• Different audiences!
• Instrumental application of theory?
• pedagogic examples (hotel keys etc)

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A Grand Theory of Everyting?!

• Of course not.
• BUT
• little explicit concern for boundries/
  appropriateness
• implicit assumption that univerally applicable?!
• Cases in Information systems that need
  considerations

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GSO Work

• Complex hybrids
• Action lost in time and space
• Deep rooted structures
• Circulating reference