Actor network theory (ANT), also known as enrolment theory or the sociology of translation, emerged during the mid-1980s, primarily with the work of Bruno Latour, Michel Callon, and John Law.

Actor-network theory is an approach emphasizing that the capacity to produce effects, that is, agency, is not a property of certain bounded enti-ties such as humans, but instead an emergent, relational, …

To see this more clearly, however, we need to consider what the adjective 'Theory' means when itis appended to that strange and hyphenated appellation 'Actor-Network'.

Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is notoriously difficult to summarize, define or explain. There are a number of reasons for this, not least of which is ANT’s unrelenting attack on the categories and concepts that …

Exploring the properties of actor-networks is the task that the Paris group of science and technology studies has set itself to tacklesince the beginning of the 1980s (Callón/ Law/Rip 1986). However, this …

10. Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) Technoscience = view of science and technology as involving the same types of processes. Bruno Latour Claim: There is no distinction in kind between "discovery" and …

Actor-network theory (ANT) is a philosophical approach to the social sciences that encourages researchers to analyse events as the outcomes of interacting and unstable networks of associations.