Following Actors: Enrolling the Vocabulary of Actor Network Theory to Talk about Internet Banking in a Remote Indigenous Town

Anthea Nicholls

Following Actors: Enrolling the Vocabulary of Actor Network Theory to Talk about Internet Banking in a Remote Indigenous Town

Anthea Nicholls

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Abstract

Actor Network Theorist, Bruno Latour, advises Actor Network Theory (ANT) practitionersin the pursuit of ‘new, unexpected actors’, to travel slowly and take unfrequented roads. Inthis article, this advice is taken seriously in Ramingining, a remote Indigenous town innorthern Australia. It follows a family endeavouring to get access to money in their bank accounts and in so doing allows a mutual and enlightening interrogation between bothRamingining and ANT.

Original language	English
Pages	45-58
Number of pages	14
Volume	13
No.	May 2013
Specialist publication	Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social contexts
Publication status	Published - May 2013

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Following Actors: Enrolling the Vocabulary of Actor Network Theory to Talk about Internet Banking in a Remote Indigenous Town

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