Dear Christian I have made an attempt and it will be published in the Februar issue of Convergence 2007. Abstract: Mundane cyborgpractice material aspects of broadband internet use This article is about the use of broadband internet access in the home. Special attention is given to different material aspects of the internet. Inspired by Actor Network Theory and Cyborgtheory, a concept of a mundane cyborgpractice is developed, to outline how the internet is integrated into the everyday life and related to other technologies. This concept is used in mapping the everyday life through ethnographic participant observations and qualitative interviews. Raymond Williams concept of flow is used to map how the internet is integrated into the everyday life and hereby becomes a mundane technology that bends time and space. This aspect is underlined by the materialization of the internet. It is concluded that when looking at the internet we have to take into consideration all the mundane aspects of internet use and sometimes conceive of the users as mundane cyborgs. Best, Søren
Dear colleagues,
I am curious to find out if there are scholars who have used Latour's Actor Network Theory for describing the internet as a network of human and non-human (technical) actors.
I think that such an approach were fundamentally flawed, but would like to know if anyone has already attempted and published such a description?
Christian
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