At 18:12 19/09/01 +0200, you wrote:
greetings!
I am about to embark on the project of writing my thesis on the topic of the sociotechnical implications of file sharing and the .mp3 format. My focus will be the proliferation of the technology and the following debate and legal actions by the involved parties. The theoretical framework will be centered around Bruno Latour and others' work known as Actor Network Theory.
On a related note, if anyone knows of a "Latour for Dummies" or something similar in Actor Network theory I would love to know of it. I've found this to be a frustratingly amorphous body of scholarship and suspect that I'm missing some entry point. Cheers Bruce Bruce Mason, bmason@mun.ca http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~bmason You can observe a lot just by watching.