CCR601 – Final Project – Richardson

Richardson, Pamela. “Agricultural Ethics, Neurotic Natures and Emotional Encounters: An Application of Actor-Network Theory.” Ethics, Place & Environment 7 3 (2004): 195-201. Print. This paper arises out of a particular tension between the author and the multiple “actants” that constituted the research subjects she interviewed in a trip to Barbados to conduct fieldwork on the relationship between agriculture and... Read More

CCR691 – Final Project – Routledge, et.al.

Routledge, Paul, Andrew Cumbers, and Corinne Nativel. “Grassrooting Network Imaginaries: Relationality, Power, and Mutual Solidarity in Global Justice Networks.” Environment and Planning A 39 11 (2007): 2575-92. Print. This piece looks at the Latourian notion of “translation” to see how connections are created and sustained within a network of global justice – People’s Global Action Asia.  In so doing, this piece discusses... Read More

CCR691 – Final Project – Rivers

Rivers, Nathaniel A. “Some Assembly Required: The Latourian Collective and the Banal Work of Technical and Professional Communication.” Journal of Technical Writing & Communication 38 3 (2008): 189-206. Print. Rivers wants to address how collecting technologies into temporary and permanent strucutres to address the common world for the common good.  For Rivers, this should be the goal that technical and professional communicators... Read More

CCR691 – Final Project – Potts

Potts, Liza. “Using Actor Network Theory to Trace and Improve Multimodal Communication Design.” Technical Communication Quarterly 18 3 (2009): 281-301. Print. Potts begins the article by demonstrating how CNNs list of Hurricane Katrina missing/survivors was an exercise in a non-function network – or a non-network.  Because of the sites inability for users to interact with the system to “add important details, edit names, locate duplicates,... Read More

Network – Spinuzzi

Spinuzzi, Clay. Network:  Theorizing Knowledge Work in Communications. New York: Cambridge UP, 2008. Chapter One:  Networks, Genres, and Four Little Disruptions In this introductory chapter Spinuzzi does a lot of definitional work in order to inform the rest of his study.  S. is an activity theory researcher at heart; however, he also sees that AT has severely limited itself.  To understand and work past these limitations, Spinuzzi recommends... Read More