Social influences on information and communication technology innovations / Arthur Tatnall, [editor].

"Premier reference source."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book discusses in great detail the use of actor-network theory in offering explanations for socio-technical phenomena, focusing heavily on information communication technologies"--Provided by publisher.

The use of structuration theory and actor network theory for analysis : case study of a financial institution in South Africa / Tiko Ilyamu, Dewald Roode -- Information infrastructure : an actor-network perspective / Antonio Cordella -- Adoption of ICT in rural medical general practices in Australia : an actor-network study / Patricia Deering, Arthur Tatnall, Stephen Burgess -- Having a say : voices for all the actors in ANT research? / Mary Anne Kennan, Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, Jim Underwood -- A socio-technical account of an internet-based self-service technology implementation : why call-centres sometimes 'prevail' in multi-channel context? / Rennie Naidoo -- How to recognize an immutable mobile when you find one : translations on innovation and design / Fernando Abreu Gonc̦alves, Jose Figueiredo -- Social network sites : the science of building and maintining online communities, a perspective from actor-network theory / Nisrine Zammar -- Negotiating meaning : an ANT approach to the building of innovations / Fernando Abreu Gonc̦alves, José Figueiredo -- Theoretical analysis of strategic implementation of enterprise architecture / Tiko Iyamu -- RAD and other innovative approaches to facilitate superior project management / Rajeev K. Bali, Nilmini Wickramasinghe -- Desituating context in ubiquitous computing : exploring strategies for the use of remote diagnostic systems for maintenance work / Katrin Jonsson, Jonny Holmström, Kalle Lyytinen [and others] -- Negotiating the socio-material in and about information systems : an approach to native methods / Fletcher T.H. Cole -- On actors, networks, hybrids, black boxes and contesting programming languages / Arthur Tatnall -- From intermediary to mediator and vice versa : on agency and intentionality of a mundane sociotechnical system / Antonio Diaz Andrade -- Using actor-network theory to facilitate a superior understanding of knowledge creation and knowledge transfer / Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Arthur Tatnall, Rajeev K. Bali -- Aspects of e-learning in a university / Karen Manning, Lily Wong, Arthur Tatnall.