The Theoretical and Analytical Inclusion of Actor Network Theory and its Implication on ICT Research

Theoretical Inclusion

The relationship between technology and society has been for long debated in the history and sociology field and recently in the information systems field. Two main perspectives have dominated the view of the relationship between society and technology: technology determinism and social constructivism. However the discussion of these approaches is not new to the information systems field, yet it is here presented only to show how ANT could theoretically resolve the tension between the two polars of determinisms and include some of the approaches that could go under the label ‘social constructivism’ as follows.