Talking about Associations and Descriptions or a Short Story about Associology

Ochsner, Beate

Talking about Associations and Descriptions or a Short Story about Associology

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2017

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Applying the Actor-Network Theory in Media Studies / Spöhrer, Markus; Ochsner, Beate (ed.). - Hershey, PA : IGI Global, 2017. - pp. 220-233. - ISBN 978-1-5225-0616-4

Abstract

In 1999, Bruno Latour advocated for “abandoning what was wrong with ANT, that is ‘actor,' ‘network,' ‘theory' without forgetting the hyphen.” However, it seems that the “hyphen,” which brings with it the operation of hyphenating or connecting, was abandoned too quickly. If one investigates what something is by asking what it is meant as well as how it emerges, by (re-)tracing the strategy in materials in situated practices and sets of relations, and, by bypassing the distinction between agency and structure, one shifts from studying “what causes what” to describing “how things happen.” This perspective not only makes it necessary for us to clarify the changing positions and displacements of human and non-human actors in the assemblage, but, also question the role (the enrolment) of the researcher him/herself: What kind of “relation” connects the researcher to his/her research and associates him/her with the subject, how to prevent (or not) his/her own involvement, and, to what degree s/he ignores the relationality of his/her writing in a “sociology of association?”

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OCHSNER, Beate, 2017. Talking about Associations and Descriptions or a Short Story about Associology. In: SPÖHRER, Markus, ed., Beate OCHSNER, ed.. Applying the Actor-Network Theory in Media Studies. Hershey, PA:IGI Global, pp. 220-233. ISBN 978-1-5225-0616-4. Available under: doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0616-4.ch013

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@incollection{Ochsner2017Talki-39367,
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  doi={10.4018/978-1-5225-0616-4.ch013},
  title={Talking about Associations and Descriptions or a Short Story about Associology},
  isbn={978-1-5225-0616-4},
  publisher={IGI Global},
  address={Hershey, PA},
  booktitle={Applying the Actor-Network Theory in Media Studies},
  pages={220--233},
  editor={Spöhrer, Markus and Ochsner, Beate},
  author={Ochsner, Beate}
}

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