Actually I'm awaiting the prior mentioned paper, because other than
general social research including objects, i don't know that ANT has
any necessary relevance to design research. It really is more of a
researcher's choice to be ANT oriented, than a disciplinary or
interdisciplinary issue.
On Apr 26, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Terence Love wrote:
> 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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> 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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