出版社:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要:Actor-network theory and the analysis of technoscience developed by Javier Echeverría (2003) have many features in common, but they also diverge in a number of points. While the analysis of technoscience amounts to the attempt of classifying and characterizing the modalities of contemporary scientific and technological practices, the set of methodological tools of actor-network theory brings to the forefront the disorder hidden behind the ordered image of both contemporary and past technoscience. However, actor-network theory may be useful to describe the complex networks woven by research centres, institutions, universities, and companies, and their products in terms of natural and social order. In this paper, we characterize actor-network theory as well as technoscience and we identify how both, in spite of their differences, might benefit each other.
关键词:Science studies;technoscience;actor-network theory;Estudios sobre ciencia;tecnociencia;teoría del actor-red