Hi Christian, Not a description of the entire internet, by a longshot, but you might be interested in this piece: Leander, K. M. & Lovvorn, J. (2006). Literacy networks: Following the circulation of texts, bodies, and objects in the schooling and online gaming of one youth. Cognition & Instruction 24(3), 291-340. Kevin

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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-- Kevin Leander, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning NCTEAR Midwinter Conference, Feb. 23-25, 2007 Proposal Deadline: November 1, 2006 http://education.umn.edu/NCTEAR/default.html