[Air-L] Latour/ANT on social media?

[Light Ben]

Hey Evilina, 

I’ve been involved, with others, in a few pieces that do this – depends how far your definition of social media stretches. Here they are with links to open access versions:

Light, B. (2016). The rise of speculative devices: Hooking up with the bots of Ashley Madison. First Monday, 21(6): http://usir.salford.ac.uk/40326/ 
Light, BA and McGrath, K 2010, 'Ethics and social networking sites: a disclosive analysis of Facebook' , Information Technology and People, 23 (4) , pp. 290-311. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/11574/
Light, BA, Fletcher, G and Adam, AE 2008, 'Gay men, Gaydar and the commodification of difference' , Information Technology and People, 21 (3) , pp. 300-314. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/2254/

Not sure if it helps any, but also my stuff on disconnection has a broader STS lens underpinning it, see: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/39484/  and this stuff refers to ANT, but via Callon Gosling, VK, Crawford, G, Bagnall, G and Light, BA 2016, 'Branded app implementation at the London symphony orchestra' , Arts and the Market, 6 (1) , pp. 2-16. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/view/authors/59563.html
And Light, BA, Bagnall, G, Crawford, G and Gosling, VK 2016, 'The material role of digital media in connecting with, within, and beyond museums' , Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies . (Online First): http://usir.salford.ac.uk/40325/

Also see: Stefanie Duguay, Dressing up Tinderella: interrogating authenticity claims on the mobile dating app Tinder, Information Communication and Society: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1168471

There will be many more, maybe tell us a bit more about what you want?

Hope this helps!

Ben.


Ben Light - BA (Hons), MSc, PhD.
 
Professor of Digital Society
School of Health and Society
Connected Lives, Diverse Realities Research Group
University of Salford, 
Salford  M5 4WT 
tel: +44(0)1612950159  |  twitter: @doggyb  web: www.benlight.me <http://www.benlight.me/>
open access papers: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/view/authors/59563.html 
 
Recent Publications Include:
Albury, K., Burgess, J., Light, B., Race, K., and Wilken, R. (2017). Data cultures of mobile dating and hook-up apps: Emerging issues for critical social science research, Big Data and Society 4(2): http://usir.salford.ac.uk/43296/ 
Light, B., Burgess, J. and Duguay, S. (2016). The walkthrough method: An approach to the study of apps. New Media and Society: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/40327/ 
Light, B. (2016b). The rise of speculative devices: Hooking up with the bots of Ashley Madison. First Monday, 21(6): http://usir.salford.ac.uk/40326/ 
 


On 11/28/17, 1:10 PM, "Air-L on behalf of Evelina Liliequist" <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of evelina.liliequist at umu.se> wrote:

    Hi,
    
    what studies are out there that use Latours Actor Network-Theory to analyse social media?
    
    Thanks in advance,
    Evelina Liliequist
    
    Postgraduate student Ethnology, Digital humanities
    Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå University
    
    Umeå University
    SE-901 87 Umeå
    Sweden
    
    Tel: +46 90 7866305
    Email: evelina.liliequist at umu.se<mailto:evelina.liliequist at umu.se>
    
    _______________________________________________
    The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
    is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
    Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
    
    Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
    http://www.aoir.org/