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Look Who's Acting!: Applying Actor Network Theory for Studying Knowledge Sharing in a Co-Design Project

Look Who's Acting!: Applying Actor Network Theory for Studying Knowledge Sharing in a Co-Design Project

Patricia Wolf, Peter Troxler
Copyright: © 2015 |Volume: 7 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 19
ISSN: 1942-535X|EISSN: 1942-5368|EISBN13: 9781466677111|DOI: 10.4018/IJANTTI.2015070102
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Wolf, Patricia, and Peter Troxler. "Look Who's Acting!: Applying Actor Network Theory for Studying Knowledge Sharing in a Co-Design Project." IJANTTI vol.7, no.3 2015: pp.15-33. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJANTTI.2015070102

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Wolf, P. & Troxler, P. (2015). Look Who's Acting!: Applying Actor Network Theory for Studying Knowledge Sharing in a Co-Design Project. International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation (IJANTTI), 7(3), 15-33. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJANTTI.2015070102

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Wolf, Patricia, and Peter Troxler. "Look Who's Acting!: Applying Actor Network Theory for Studying Knowledge Sharing in a Co-Design Project," International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation (IJANTTI) 7, no.3: 15-33. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJANTTI.2015070102

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Abstract

Digital maker communities democratize manufacturing through hands on learning, trans-disciplinary work and open source knowledge sharing. Little is known how knowledge sharing actually happens. This study applied actor-network-theory as underlying theoretical framework to a co-design project in a digital maker community – the teletransportation project. At the core of this project was a basic digital design for a cup that can be 3D-printed. The study showed that the different network types re-assemble around nodes that result from translations (and therefore transformations) of the initial project idea and the code that allowed to 3D-print a cup. It was able to show translations and the circular movement in the network as well as translation costs, time effects, intermediaries and mediators.

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