Non-fiction film shares a long and relatively uncharted history with the museum. Today, filmmaking is a widespread yet critically neglected area of modern museological practice. This practice-based PhD situates itself within these critical gaps to examine the knowledge producing potential of film archives and film practice at the Manchester Museum. Its primary historical sources are a group of taxidermy objects at the Manchester Museum, an archive of 16mm acetate films at the North West Film Archive and a collection of travel journals at Cheshire Archives and Local Studies. These diverse collections were generated by Maurice Egerton, the 4th Baron of Tatton in Cheshire during his travels in Africa in the first decades of the twentieth century. This thesis brings all three together for the first time since their moment of production. These collections recur throughout the thesis as I ask how film archives can complicate and enrich our understanding of collections and how filmmaking practice might continue to bring new types of knowledge into the museum and archive. Two research films are submitted with and discussed within the thesis. The first, 'Living Worlds at the Manchester Museum', adapts observational methods from visual anthropology to record objects and staff during the re-display of the mammal gallery at the Manchester Museum in 2011. The second, 'Articulating Archives' is the result of a creative collaboration in 2014 with Year 8 secondary school students and the institutions and archives named above. Within the production and analyses of these films I draw on diverse critical sources to suggest that film can illuminate properties of materiality, embodied knowledge and performed engagement that textual accounts fall short of capturing.

During the 1990's high expectations were put on telemedicine technology in health care organizations, which can be seen as a reflexion of the society's interest in IT. The use of tele-medicine is expected to improve the quality and decrease costs of health care services. However, if these expectations are to be attained the visions have to be translated into fields of application in local settings where the technology would be used. This could be seen as an infusion process, which means that the technology would incrementally be used in a comprehensive and integrated manner. In this thesis, four Swedish telemedicine projects are analyzed. The approach used is that of Actor network theory (ANT), which has enabled the development of a theory of the infusion process, implementation of IT-projects, and parts of ANT, e.g. the model of the translation process and the notion of inscription. By using the concept of translation, it is possible to see the infusion process as a process where the generic features of the technology (transmitting sound and pictures in real time) are translated into concrete activities in local settings. These fields of application are realized by the mobilization of different task-based networks, where the roles of the actors are defined by the task to be solved. An iterated mobilization of the network implies further that the network will become stabilized, which is a central dimension in the process of infusion. Another way to understand the process of infusion is to describe it as cycles of implementation, where one cycle symbolizes the implementation of a field of application, which is a result of the translation of the generic features of the technology. The inscriptions in the studied technology allow a high degree of flexibility of use and flexibility of action. The flexibility means that fields of application ought to be developed in interaction between actors in local settings, and supporting programs of action are to be identified, or developed, in order to integrate technology use into daily routines. The considerable numbers of failed of IT-project implementations can be explained by the fact that a traditional planning perspective has been used on technologies, which allow a high degree of flexibility of use and flexibility of action. However, by categorizing inscriptions in technological artifacts, it becomes possible to predict what kinds of implementation strategies are appropriate for different kinds of technologies. By viewing the implementation of open networking technologies as a process of translation, the infusion process will be facilitated and a comprehensive and integrated use of technology will be enabled. / digitalisering@umu

Un consensus général existe dans la recherche en Systèmes d’Information (SI) autour du concept et du modèle d’alignement stratégique (SAM) développé par Henderson et Venkatraman (1993). Celui-ci offre une norme technique et managériale pour un choix et une gestion optimale, puisque rationnelle, des SI. Paradoxalement, de nombreux projets de reconfigurations SI sont des échecs et entrainent les entreprises dans des trajectoires d’escalade d’engagement. A partir d’une lecture critique de la littérature construite sur les principes de la stratégie par les pratiques (SasP), nous cherchons à décrire les dynamiques organisationnelles à l’origine de la réussite ou de l’échec de ce type de projets. Une étude qualitative a été menée à travers quatre cas et une étude Delphi dans une approche de théorie enracinée. Ce corpus de données a fait l’objet d’un codage assisté par le logiciel NVivo. A travers la mobilisation de la théorie de la traduction, l’analyse des données a fait émerger une perspective alternative de celle défendue par la littérature traditionnelle. Une situation d’alignement est le résultat de la constitution d’un réseau de trois pôles parties prenantes aux projets, à savoir le pôle utilisateurs, le pôle managérial et le pôle technique. Ce réseau n’existe pas en soi, il est une construction collective liée à l’adhésion de ses membres sur la base de la satisfaction de leurs besoins respectifs à travers un processus de traduction. Nous ne parlons plus d’alignement stratégique, ni d’alignement des SI, mais d’alignement d’intérêts des parties prenantes autour d’un projet SI. / In information systems (IS) research, there is a solid consensus in acknowledging Henderson’s & Vankatraman’s (1993) concept and model of strategy alignment. It provides a rational technical and managerial standard for optimal choice and management of SI. Paradoxically, many IS reconfigurations are failures and entail firms to go into an escalation of commitment. Based on a critical reading of the literature built on the principles of strategy as practice, (SasP), we seek to describe the organizational dynamics behind the success or failure of such projects. Through four cases and a Delphi study, a qualitative analysis was conducted using a Grounded Theory approach. This body of data underwent coding with the assistance of the software NVivo. Through the use of translation theory, data analysis has given rise to an alternative perspective to that advocated by the traditional literature. A state of alignment is the result of the establishment of a 3-pole project stakeholder network, i.e. the managerial pole, the users’ pole and the technical pole. This network does not exist in itself; it is linked to a collective adherence of its members on the basis of the satisfaction of their individual needs through a translation process. We no longer speak of strategic alignment or IS alignment, but of the stakeholders’ alignment of interests around an IS project.

Esta dissertação teve como objetivo descrever, à luz da obra de Bruno Latour, as construções de natureza e sociedade pelas redes de humanos e não-humanos da ciência das mudanças climáticas em São Paulo. As mudanças climáticas estão no olho do furacão de um dos debates científicos e sociopolíticos mais importantes da atualidade pelo risco que representam às antigas classificações das ciências modernas, que distinguem totalmente os domínios do humano e do natural. Este estudo buscou contribuir para o avanço teórico e etnográfico nas áreas de mudanças climáticas, da antropologia da ciência e da tecnologia, dos estudos sociais de ciência e tecnologia (science studies). O projeto teve início com o mapeamento da rede paulista de pesquisadores de mudanças climáticas dedicados à produção, ao desenvolvimento e ao uso da modelagem climática computacional, assim como o levantamento bibliográfico de antropologia e história das ciências e das ciências das mudanças climáticas. A partir da seleção de entrevistas com alguns informantes mapeados e da leitura do material bibliográfico levantado, o trabalho realizou uma discussão, seguindo a teoria do ator-rede, da história das classificações de humano e natural em risco na ciência de mudanças climáticas e uma discussão dos diferentes elementos e relações sociotécnicas produzidos e que a compõem. / This study concerns a description of nature and society production, according to Bruno Latour, in the human and non-human networks of climate change science in Sao Paulo. Climate change is at the eye of the storm in one of the most important scientific and sociopolitical debates of our time, due to the risks it presents to the old classifications of modern science, which distinguish the human and natural dominions. This study aimed at promoting developments in anthropological theory and ethnography in the fields of climate change, anthropology of science and technology, science studies, and actor-network-theory. The research started with mapping the network of climate change scientists in Sao Paulo dedicated to the production, development, and use of computer climate models and with selecting the literature concerning anthropology and history of science and climate change science. Based on interviews of mapped researchers and the selected literature, this study discusses following actor-network-theory the history of human and natural classifications at risk in climate change science and the different sociotechnical elements and relations that compose it and are produced by it.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:23:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Roger Pascoal.pdf: 1291326 bytes, checksum: 3a4f477cf8aa5729a12847efeabd81cd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-08 / The multiplication and diversity of new devices connected to computer networks in recent years, as well as new software platforms, become even more complex landscape formed by the signs presented by digital interfaces. Over the past 25 years, the rapid pace of spread and diversification of Internet connection devices lead us to question the cognitive impact of their presence in urban settings, now hyper-by computerized machines. The objective of this research is to deepen the understanding of communication on digital platforms connected by extending the concept of 'hypertext'. For this, we try to find it in a complex perspective of the study of networks, which considered authors from different areas of study: Duncan Watts and Albert-László Barabási in Science Network; Manuel Castells, sociology and studies on the Information Society; Edgar Morin, and his notion of knowledge and complexity; Bruno Latour and other assets authors in the development of Actor-Network Theory and its precursors, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The research followed methodological indications of Actor-Network Theory and, through observations on different actors, mapped human and non-human interaction as a way to provide an overview of the dynamics of hypertext networks. The question raised by this situation is the concept of hypertext can be applied to analysis of communication mediated by systems connected in multiple platforms interconnected by global computer networks / A multiplicação e a diversidade de novos aparelhos conectados às redes de computadores nos últimos anos, bem como novas plataformas de softwares, tornaram ainda mais complexa a paisagem constituída pelos signos apresentados pelas interfaces digitais. Nos últimos 25 anos, o ritmo acelerado da disseminação e a diversificação dos dispositivos de conexão à Internet nos levam a questionar os impactos cognitivos de sua presença nos cenários urbanos, agora hiperconectados por aparelhos computadorizados. O objetivo desta pesquisa é aprofundar a compreensão sobre a comunicação em plataformas digitais conectadas por meio da extensão do conceito de 'hipertexto'. Para isso, procuramos localizá-lo sob uma perspectiva complexa do estudo das redes, que considerou autores de diferentes áreas de estudo: Duncan Watts e Albert-Lászlo Barabási, na Ciência das Redes; Manuel Castells, na Sociologia e estudos sobre a Sociedade da Informação; Edgar Morin, e sua noção sobre conhecimento e complexidade; Bruno Latour e outros autores ativos no desenvolvimento da Teoria Ator-Rede, bem como seus precursores, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari. A pesquisa seguiu indicações metodológicas da Teoria Ator-Rede e, por meio de observações sobre diferentes atores, mapeou humanos e não-humanos em interação como forma de constituir um panorama sobre a dinâmica das redes hipertextuais. A questão apresentada por esse panorama é se o conceito de hipertexto pode ser aplicado para análise da comunicação mediada pelos sistemas conectados nas múltiplas plataformas interligadas pelas redes mundiais de computadores

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:23:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Clayton Policarpo Barbosa Vicente.pdf: 12052423 bytes, checksum: 41d80125cbcf32362131b71fa31cde00 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-09-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In every step in ways of producing language, we started to live in new communicative and cultural ecologies, that present themselves in an increased semiodiversity (Santaella, 2010, p. 63). New environments are configured, leaving sometimes to the art the role of mediating and reach new limits that broaden the understanding of the generated changes by the emerging possibilities. In order to trace reflections and propose a theoretical and methodological basis concerning the creation of the artistic narratives on digital platforms, this paper seeks, from monitoring the several steps of a developed network project, the Global Strike (globalstrike.net), to prepare a critical repertoire for analysis and creation of aesthetic manifestations that use hypermedia languages. We start from an ecological perspective, when different agents tend to be articulated in interactive processes and produce a reticular and flat organized flows. Definitions are traced that we hope to strengthen the understanding about works that are limited in such model. To clarify terms like communication s ecology and interstitial narratives, we seek to restructure concepts like author, work and observer. By the time we identify a political dimension in such experiences, as these constitute temporary practice and through heterogeneous associations / A cada avanço nos modos de produzir linguagem, passamos a habitar novas ecologias comunicacionais e culturais que se apresentam em uma semiodiversidade cada vez maior (Santaella, 2010, p. 63). Novos ambientes se configuram, cabendo por vezes à arte o papel de mediar e alçar novos limites que ampliem a compreensão das alterações geradas pelas possibilidades que emergem. Com o intuito de traçar reflexões e propor uma base teórica e metodológica acerca do modo de produção de narrativas artísticas em plataformas digitais, o presente trabalho busca, a partir do acompanhamento das diversas etapas de um projeto desenvolvido em rede, o Global Strike (globalstrike.net), elaborar um repertório crítico para análise e criação de manifestações estéticas que utilizam linguagens hipermidiáticas. Partimos de uma perspectiva ecológica, em que diferentes agentes tendem a se articular em processos interacionais e produzir fluxos reticulares e horizontalmente organizados. São traçadas definições que esperamos que fortaleçam a compreensão de obras que se circunscrevem em tal modelo. Ao elucidar termos como ecologia da comunicação e narrativas intersticiais, buscamos reestruturar conceitos como autor, obra e observador. Ao tempo que identificamos uma dimensão política em tais experiências, visto que estas se constituem provisórias e por meio de associações heterogêneas

O vínculo familiar e comunitário é um operador importante da Política Nacional de Assistência Social (PNAS). Segundo um de seus documentos, ele é uma meta que perpassa todas as suas normatizações. Frente a essa centralidade, esta tese buscou investigar, a partir das proposições dos Estudos da Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade e da Teoria Ator-Rede, as redes de práticas heterogêneas pelas quais o vínculo é performado (enacted) como objeto da Política. Nesse sentido, o vínculo não se constitui como um mero laço ou associação entre diferentes elementos, mas como um objeto imaterial que só ganha existência na PNAS porque constantemente sustentamos e cultivamos redes de práticas que o produzem. Ou seja, ele só passa a existir porque diferentes atores atuam incessantemente para sua fabricação. Desse modo, a primeira parte do trabalho é uma aposta política em traçar um caminho investigativo, ao campo das políticas públicas/sociais, que se distancia dos estudos foucaultiano – perspectiva já consolidada em pesquisas sobre o tema. Na segunda parte a construção da tese se organiza em quatro movimentos de análise. O movimento 1mostra a rede de práticas que performa o vínculo como objeto da Política em sua forma documental (domínio da política), através da análise do Caderno “Concepção de Convivência e Fortalecimento de Vínculos”; o movimento 2 descreve as redes de práticas que advém do campo de conhecimento da Psicologia (domínio teórico-científico) e que compõe o vínculo como objeto da PNAS; o movimento 3 discute as práticas cotidianas de um Serviço de Proteção e Atendimento Integral à Família (PAIF) da cidade de Porto Alegre e, finalmente, o movimento 4 se detém a relação/implicação da performance do vínculo com o exercício da cidadania. Nesse sentido, o percurso dessa tese busca fomentar o exercício ético de pensarmos sobre o que realmente queremos para o coletivo com o qual trabalhamos. Portanto, uma provocação, que busca abrir brechas para que possamos olhar para as práticas desse campo de modo a ver mais possibilidades do que impossibilidades ao trabalho cotidiano. / The family and community bond is an important operator of the National Social Assistance Policy (PNAS). According to one of its documents, it is a goal that pervades all its norms. In view of this centrality, this thesis sought to investigate, from the propositions of the Science and Technology Studies and of the Actor-Network Theory, the networks of heterogeneous practices by which the bond is performed (enacted) as object of the Policy. In this sense, the bond does not constitute a mere link or association between different elements, but as an immaterial object that only obtain existence in the PNAS because we constantly sustain and cultivate networks of practices that produce it. Thereby, it only comes into existence because different actors act ceaselessly for its fabrication. In this way, the first part of this work is a political commitment to draw an investigative path, in the field of public / social policies, which distances itself from Foucualtian studies - a perspective already consolidated in research on this subject. In the second part the construction of the thesis is organized in four analysis movements. Movement 1 shows the network of practices that enact the bond as object of the Policy in its documents (domain of politics), through the analysis of the Notebook "Conception of Living Together and Strengthening of Bonds"; The movement 2 describes the networks of practices that come from the field of knowledge of Psychology (theoretical-scientific domain) and that composes the bond as object of the PNAS; The movement 3 discusses the daily practices of a Service of Protection and Integral Assistance to the Family (PAIF) of the city of Porto Alegre and, finally, the movement 4 focuses in the relation/implication of the peformance of the bond with the exercise of citizenship. In this sense, the course of this thesis seeks to promote the ethical exercise of thinking about what we really want for the collective with which we work. Therefore, a provocation, that tries to open gaps from which we can look at the practices of this field in order to see more possibilities than impossibilities to the daily work.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2016-10-31T18:21:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Lucas Henrique da Luz_.pdf: 4714328 bytes, checksum: 7e4a6b2e242fb6f4b28c3d6deef89c2a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-31T18:21:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lucas Henrique da Luz_.pdf: 4714328 bytes, checksum: 7e4a6b2e242fb6f4b28c3d6deef89c2a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-20 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / UNISINOS - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos / As mudanças na sociedade e no ambiente organizacional têm ensejado diferentes formas de se pensar a estratégia ao longo do tempo. Nesse sentido, a presente tese busca analisar como o contexto de interação, conectividade e cooperação favorece ou não a adoção de estratégia emergente na lógica da multidão, com aportes metodológicos da Teoria Ator-Rede (ANT). Para tanto, realiza-se uma pesquisa qualitativa, com abordagem exploratória, analisando-se dois casos – O Espaço Comum Luiz Estrela (ECLE) e o Movimiento 15 de Mayo (15M) – que atuam em ambientes marcados pelas características citadas. Pode-se concluir que o estrategizar dos casos estudados assume lógicas da multidão, caracterizando-se por serem emergentes, auto-organizados, fruto das interações entre os praticantes humanos (singularidades) e não humanos, legitimando-se em forma de espiral e tendo governança enquanto abertura. É um estrategizar marcado pelo uso das tecnologias da informação e comunicação e pela participação mais direta, onde as interações e agências ocorrem por meio das diferenças e do comum, numa perspectiva de uno pelo múltiplo – agências e interações na lógica da multidão. São características que não constituem um modelo, mas uma lógica de estrategizar e que assumem formatos diferentes nos casos estudados. Conclui-se ainda que as inspirações metodológicas da ANT, tais como olhar a realidade de forma não essencialista, numa lógica performativa, valorizando as diferenças e considerando a atuação dos atores humanos e não humanos são adequadas para o estudo dessa lógica de estratégia. Diante do exposto, afirma-se que a presente tese contribui para avançar teoricamente nas formas de se pensar as agências, as relações entre microações e macrocontexto, bem como no entendimento do mistério, da experimentação e das diferenças como potência estratégica. Avança também construindo uma estratégia na lógica da multidão, adequada a contextos complexos, próprios da realidade atual e sugerindo inspirações metodológicas para sua apreensão e análise. Por fim, permite às organizações estudadas uma melhor compreensão das suas práticas estratégicas e da sua potência. / Changes in the society and the organizational environment have given rise to different forms of thinking strategy over time. In this sense, the present dissertation seeks to analyze how the context of interaction, connectivity and cooperation favors or not the adoption of an emerging strategy in the logic of the crowd, with methodological contributions by the Actor-Network Theory (ANT). For this, we have conducted a qualitative research with an exploratory approach to analyzing two cases: Espaço Comum Luiz Estrela (ECLE) and Movimiento 15 de Mayo (15M), which act in environments marked by such characteristics. We conclude that the strategizing of the cases studied assumes a logic of crowd for being emerging and self-organized, a result of interactions between the human and non-human practitioners (singularities), legitimizing themselves in the form of a spiral and having governance as openness. It is a strategizing marked by the use of information and communication technologies and by a more direct participation, where interactions and agencies occur through the differences and the commons under a perspective of the uno through the multiple – agencies and interactions in the logic of the crowd. They are characteristics that do not constitute a model, but a logic of strategizing and take up different shapes in the cases studied. We also come to the conclusion that the methodological inspirations by the ANT, such as looking reality in a non-essentialistic way in a performative logic, valuing differences and considering the agency of human and non-human actors, are appropriate for the study of this strategy logic. Furthermore, we affirm that the present dissertation contributes to advancing theoretically in the forms of thinking the agencies, the relationships between micro-actions and micro-contexts, as well as to the understanding of the mystery, experimentation and differences as a strategic power. It also advances by building a strategy in the logic of the crowd suitable for complex contexts, typical of the current moment, and suggesting methodological inspirations for its apprehension and analysis. Finally, this study allows the organizations studied a better comprehension of their strategic practices and their power.

Environmental sociology and the sociology of scientific knowledge provide a strong theoretical foundation for investigating the role of science in environmental disputes. The field of environmental dispute resolution has built a body of literature, outlining the techniques and practices that underpin the successful resolution of disputes, over controversial environmental issues. However, the literature on dispute resolution has generally neglected the role of science in environmental disputes. This thesis develops a theoretical framework based on concepts from environmental sociology and the sociology of scientific knowledge in order to critically examine the role of science in environmental disputes. In particular, this thesis combines the theory on claims-making from environmental sociology with actor-network theory and the theory on boundary-work from the sociology of scientific knowledge, to analyse the way in which science was involved in the dispute over phasing out extractive dredging from the Brisbane River. Data were collected from qualitative in-depth interviews with key players in the Brisbane River dredging dispute and combined with analysis of relevant documents and newspaper articles. Each of the components of the theoretical framework developed in this thesis contributes to an in-depth analysis of the way in which science was involved in the dredging dispute. The environmental claims-making analysis examines the way in which the claim that extractive dredging was an environmental problem for the Brisbane River was constructed and contested. The actor-network analysis compares the two competing actor-networks that were developed by one of the major concrete companies and by the anti-dredging campaigners. The boundary-work analysis examines the social construction of the science / politics border as an important site of boundary-work, before exploring other related forms of boundary-work within the case study. When combined, these theories highlight the social and political processes that underpin the inherent difficulties associated with applying science to effective environmental dispute resolution. The theoretical framework developed in this thesis highlights the way in which an analysis of environmental claims-making, actor-networks and boundary-work, extends the literature on environmental dispute resolution. This thesis therefore makes a significant contribution to the field of environmental dispute resolution, by illustrating the advantages of drawing on theoretical perspectives from environmental sociology and the sociology of scientific knowledge.

本研究耙梳1950年代至2010年台灣棒球投手調度觀念的演進，並試圖解釋其演進的過程。本研究著重在投手調度觀念的演進過程，及相關團體因不同的利益考量進行的角力。這些利益的角力形成台灣的投手調度策略的現況。從時代上來說，本研究以1970年代少棒旋風、1990年中華職棒成立、2000年前後開啟的球員旅外潮來劃分投手調度觀念演進的時代。本研究認為，這幾個不同年代發生的重要歷史事件對台灣棒球造成的影響，深刻地影響了投手調度觀念的演進，並證明投手調度／保護觀念並不僅是醫學觀念的單純引進與發揚過程。這過程其實是支持與反對的團體對詮釋權的爭奪戰。本演研究將兩方的邏輯劃分為「脆弱投手邏輯」和「強壯投手邏輯」。目前「脆弱投手邏輯」之所以能在台灣職業棒球領域中獲得上風，關鍵性的原因在於它與「棒球數據派」的成功結盟，借用其強大的說服力取得詮釋論戰上的優勢。反之，在三級棒球的領域，也因為「棒球數據派」的介入程度較低，使「脆弱投手邏輯」的拓展遭遇困難。 本研究的主要架構是以行動者網絡理論（Actor- Networking Theory）為基礎，試圖以關涉在此一網絡裡主要行動者的結盟與角力作為投手調度觀念演進的解釋。 / This study explores the process of baseball pitcher policy in Taiwan. The process showed a long but significant change in pitcher policy, and made the loading of pitcher decrease. The process continued more than 40 years and there were three important historic events in it. The first was the “Youth Baseball Period” in 1970’s. The second was the professionalization of Taiwan baseball in 1990. And the third was the “Traveling Outside Period” in 2000’s, which made lots of excellent players travelled to America or Japan. This research analyzed the process carefully, and found that the change of pitcher didn’t base on the progress of medicine, although we usually think it was. The study found that the change based on the interest of groups which involved in the network. Some groups supported decreasing the loading of pitcher, some opposed. All they concerned about were their own interest. This research analyzed the process by Actor-Networking Theory (ANT) and found a key-factor which determined the pitcher policy. The factor was Sabermetrics, which means people who believe baseball statistics can express more “reality” in baseball game. They also believe statistics can tell more than just watching game in court. The Sabermetrics finally combined their interest with groups which supported decreasing the pitcher loading, and caused the pitcher policy tend to decrease the pitcher loading at present.