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What Critical Media Studies Should Not Take from Actor-Network Theory

What Critical Media Studies Should Not Take from Actor-Network Theory

Jan Teurlings
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781522506164|ISBN10: 1522506160|EISBN13: 9781522506171
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0616-4.ch005
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Teurlings, Jan. "What Critical Media Studies Should Not Take from Actor-Network Theory." Applying the Actor-Network Theory in Media Studies, edited by Markus Spöhrer and Beate Ochsner, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 66-78. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0616-4.ch005

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Teurlings, J. (2017). What Critical Media Studies Should Not Take from Actor-Network Theory. In M. Spöhrer & B. Ochsner (Eds.), Applying the Actor-Network Theory in Media Studies (pp. 66-78). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0616-4.ch005

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Teurlings, Jan. "What Critical Media Studies Should Not Take from Actor-Network Theory." In Applying the Actor-Network Theory in Media Studies, edited by Markus Spöhrer and Beate Ochsner, 66-78. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0616-4.ch005

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Abstract

While supportive towards a certain rapprochement between media studies and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) this chapter identifies three main characteristics of the Latourian enterprise that critical media studies should avoid if it wants to remain its critical edge: 1. a methodological descriptivism that relies on the victor's account, 2. a rejection of the notion of structure, and 3. an innovative yet limited notion of intellectual work. The chapter next articulates a perspective on how a “weak” version of ANT can augment critical media studies while retaining the latter's strong dedication to changing an unjust social order.

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