The Robots Are Here
This chapter makes an argument for a shift in focus from the bias of human centricity to that of technology centricity in the analysis of technology driven actor networks. The ‘4 moments of translation’ is used as a reference model to explain the emergenc
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Contemporary Applications of Actor Network Theory
Idongesit Williams Editor
Contemporary Applications of Actor Network Theory
Editor Idongesit Williams CMI‚ Department of Electronic Systems Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark
ISBN 978-981-15-7065-0 ISBN 978-981-15-7066-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7066-7
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Preface
When we look at the globalized world, one cannot help but notice the power of ideas, concepts and various artifacts that serve as the basis of the transformation into the globalized world we see. One cannot help but realize that human effort alone did not produce the world we see today. Rather it is a result of the combined effort of the collaborative and cooperative activities of material and semiotics; and of human and nonhuman actants. The world we see today is a much bigger and complexly inscribed Actor Network which consists of many unstable and constantly evolving Actor Networks. Some of the Actor Networks enjoy relative peace, others are chaotic, others are for some reason in a state a flux, while others are just short-lived Actor Networks. These effects are enabled by the continuity in the synergic activities of human and nonhuman actants that results in different societal transformations. An example of such transformation being globalization. Although Actor-Network Theory is a widely used theory, there is very little research about the aforementioned transformations and what they mea
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