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7/14/2004 2:48 PM Page 1. A. is conceived as a heterogeneous amalgamation of textual, ACTOR NETWORK THEORY conceptual, social, and technical actors. The volitional ACTOR for ANT, termed actant, is any agent, collective or ACTOR NETWORK THEORY (ANT), also known as enrolment individual, that can associate or disassociate with other THEORY or the sociology of translation, emerged during the agents. Actants enter into networked associations, which in mid-1980s, primarily with the work of Bruno Latour, turn define them, name them, and provide them with sub- Michel Callon, and John Law. ANT is a conceptual frame stance, action, intention, and subjectivity. In other words, for exploring collective sociotechnical processes, whose actants are considered foundationally indeterminate, with spokespersons have paid particular attention to science and no a priori substance or essence, and it is via the networks technologic activity. Stemming from a Science and in which they associate that actants derive their nature.

stage strategies. Some theorists advocated fundamental trans-formations. For example, recognition of the generative and corroborative potential of networked description led to the elevated import of decentering as vital to centering and “the other” as essential to network consolidation. Other represen-

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