The uncodings of ANT: Mobilities of digital data

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The uncodings of ANT: Mobilities of digital data.
One of the best of the bunch from a double symposium, this short paper challenges our understanding of Actor-Network Theory (ANT). Terrie Lynn Thompson writes, "One of the basic tenets of Actor Network Theory (ANT) is to 'follow the actors'." But the 'actors' in a data-driven world are slippery and elusive. More...