On Actor Network Theory : a few clarifications

TITLE Your Name Subject and Section Professor’s Name Date Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is a unique theoretical approach within sociology, sciences, and technology, providing explanations of the complicated interactions of social phenomena. Different from traditional perspectives which are centered around human agency, ANT extends its view to include non-human ones, recognizing the important roles these non-human entities can play in the shaping of social processes (Latour, 1996). ANT considers society as a network of heterogeneous actors consisting of humans, technologies, institutions and other nonhuman entities. This collective agency is centred around the networks through which human and non-human elements interact in dynamic and fluid ways challenging conventional notions of actors by attributing agency both to humans and non-human entities ...