Dear Jeremy,
Thank you. That is very helpful.
From your experience, do you have any guidance about which situations in
design research ANT is especially applicable to and which particular
research tasks in those situations?
Best,
Terry
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Subject: Re: Toward an Actor-Network Theory of Design
You can't really emulate ANT in software as... You can, after you finish
your research, produce whatever graphs you might want, but don't be confused
by the word network, it isn't a network like a social network. it is a
system of relations. Two things that will likely break any attempt to draw
a computer structured map are the way one goes about ANT, which is one
follow the actors,closely. This requires that as actors switch frames of
reference, you learn to recognize it, and also switch frames of reference.
So you could be relating things on scales that are for the most part
irreconcilable outside of the narrative structure and human experience.
see... in actor network theory in the entity relationship model below... you
might actually be... referring to the dash, heh.
On Apr 26, 2009, at 2:01 AM, Terence Love wrote:
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