Information Technology & People: Volume 17 Issue 2

Guest editors’ introduction: Actor‐network theory and information systems. What's so special?

Ole Hanseth, Margunn Aanestad, Marc Berg

In this editorial introduction Allen Lee's definition of the information systems (IS) field is taken as the starting point: “Research in the information systems field examines…

Tracing the trajectories of issues, and their democratic deficits, on the Web: The case of the Development Gateway and its doubles

Noortje Marres

This article explores the ways in which actor‐network theory (ANT) invites an alternative account of democratic process, namely in terms of issue‐formation, which is particularly…

The nature of the Net: constructing reliability of health information on the Web

Samantha Adams, Marc Berg

This article juxtaposes the history of the book to the current discussions about lay health information on the Internet in order to thoroughly open up the notion of “reliability”…

Redefining the network: enrollment strategies in the PDA industry

Jonathan P. Allen

Theories of sociotechnical change seek to understand technology as both material and social artifacts. Actor‐network theory (ANT) offers an approach to sociotechnical change that…

Contested artifact: technology sensemaking, actor networks, and the shaping of the Web browser

Samer Faraj, Dowan Kwon, Stephanie Watts

Much of IT research focuses on issues of adoption and adaptation of established technology artifacts by users and organizations and has neglected issues of how new technologies…

Trojan actor‐networks and swift translation: Bringing actor‐network theory to IT project escalation studies

Magnus Mähring, Jonny Holmström, Mark Keil, Ramiro Montealegre

This study investigates the potential of actor‐network theory (ANT) for theory development on information technology project escalation, a pervasive problem in contemporary…

Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes

Chrisanthi Avgerou