Media and digital literacies in Canadian teacher educators’ open educational practices: A post-intentional phenomenology

ANT - glossary item

According to some researchers, ANT is neither a theory or a method for research. It is more descriptively understood as a paradigm, a way of sensing and seeing how ‘actors’ engage with/in the world (Blok, Farías, & Roberts, 2019, p. 1). It is sometimes known as a ‘material semiotics’ based on ontologies that “all entities in the world – from nanoparticles to bodies, groups, ecologies and ghosts – are constituted and reconstituted in shifting and hybrid webs of discursive and material relations” (Blok, Farías, & Roberts, 2019). Thinking and research within an ANT approach suggest categories of conceptual and methodological perspectives based on collective and iterative research into the sociology of science and technologies (Blok, Farías, & Roberts, 2019). Historically, “ANT has played an important role in rethinking the democratic challenges associated with the making of our socio-material worlds and made major intervention in current conceptualisations of ‘participation’” (Blok, Farías, & Roberts, 2019, p. xxi).

Reference
Blok, A., Farías, I., & Roberts, C. (Eds.). (2019). The Routledge companion to actor-network theory (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315111667
 

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