scholarly journals Intermediaries and the Governance of Sociotechnical Networks in Transition

10.1068/a4116 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1480-1495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Moss
Keyword(s):  
Sociotechnical Networks

‘The biggest legal battle in UK casino history’: Processes and politics of ‘cheating’ in sociotechnical networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Sociotechnical Networks ◽  
Legal Battle

Previous literature on cheating has focused on defining the concept, assigning responsibility to individual players, collaborative social processes or technical faults in a game’s rules. By contrast, this paper applies an actor-network perspective to understanding ‘cheating’ in games, and explores how the concept is rhetorically effective in sociotechnical controversies. The article identifies human and nonhuman actors whose interests and properties were translated in a case study of ‘edge sorting’ – identifying minor but crucial differences in tessellated patterns on the backs of playing cards, and using these to estimate their values. In the ensuing legal controversy, the defending actors – casinos – retranslated the interests of actors to position edge sorting as cheating. This allowed the casinos to emerge victorious in a legal battle over almost twenty million dollars. Analyzing this dispute shows that cheating is both sociotechnically complex as an act and an extremely powerful rhetorical tool for actors seeking to prevent changes to previously-established networks. Science and Technology Studies (STS) offers a rich toolkit for examining cheating, but in addition the cheating discourse may be valuable to STS, enlarging our repertoire of actor strategies relevant to sociotechnical disputes.

scholarly journals Understanding the Sociotechnical Networks of Surveillance Practices in Latin America

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Jose Firmino ◽  
Fernanda Bruno ◽  
Nelson Arteaga Botello
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Sociotechnical Networks

scholarly journals Consumption, "Tourism-Merchandise" and Actor-Network Theory: The Cartography of Controversies and the Case of Telegraph Rock Trail – RJ

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Bárbara Lúcia Guimarães Alves ◽  
Fred Tavares ◽  
Giselle Gama Torres Ferreira ◽  
Jefferson Fernando Gonçalves Guedes da Costa ◽  
Margarete Ribeiro Tavares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Influencing Factor ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Control Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociotechnical Networks ◽  
Social Behaviours

The contemporaneity is marked, in part, by the Control Society, characterised, among other aspects, by consumption. In this scene, both the material and the immaterial objects come to have value in the market, so that one of the influential tools in this period is the use of sociotechnical networks, also involving the social behaviours of individuals and their desires of belonging. In this perspective, the research aims at analysing the use of the images inherent to the landscape of the Telegraph Rock Trail - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - transmitted in these networks, as an influencing factor in the increase of the number of visitors in this place, having as background to the control society. The study attentive to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory (ANT), which measures the fact that the "human actor" and "non-human" can transform the society. Thus, Facebook posts were analysed from the Cartography of Controversies, which is the operationalisation of the Actor-Network Theory (ANT). For that, the contents of the publications from the years 2015 to 2017 were analysed, in the page called "Pedra do Telégrafo_RJ", with 41 thousand participants. Clues point out that the use of socio-technical networks, in the scope of consumption may have influenced the process of production of the trail, through its transformation into a product that now has market value, through the logic "tourism-commodity".

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