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| Article name | The Internet of Things and B. Latour’s Actor-network Theory: Methodology and Ontology |
| Authors | Shaev Y.M. Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor, existentia20065@yandex.ru |
| Bibliographic description | Shaev Yu. M. The Internet of Things and B. Latour’s Actor-network Theory: Methodology and Ontology // Humanitarian Vector. 2017. Vol. 12, No. 3. PP. 40–45. DOI: 10.21209/1996-7853-2017-12-3-40-45. |
| Section | Social philosophy |
| UDK | 141.32 |
| DOI | 10.21209/1996-7853-2017-12-3-40-45 |
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| Annotation | This article analyzes the phenomenon of the Internet of things in the context of the actor-network theory of B. Latour. The author examines the possibility of actor-network theory to describe the phenomenon of the Internet of things as a network of “things” and people. The article considers the problems of methodology and social ontology, possibilities of positioning a person, on the one hand, as the initiator of the network of interactions, on the other hand, as a kind of ontological modus along with the things in common practices of interaction. The Internet of things is analyzed by the author as a complex socio-technical phenomenon, reflecting the deep ontological foundations of modern man, living in the information-technology universe. To achieve this purpose, the present research uses the main methodological provisions of B. Latour’s actornetwork theory: the concept of scientific-cultural-social network; the phenomenon of the transfer of scientific practices into the socio-cultural reality; the phenomenon of translation as “the functioning continuation” of the scientific network in the space of culture. The article shows the semiotic nature of positioning man as an element of the Internet of things and analyzes some aspects of verbal and non-verbal components of human interaction with the Internet of things. The paper reinterprets the idea of the “parliament of things” as a representational model of the existence of “things” in human practices. This idea is extrapolated to the features of the Internet of things functioning. The author concludes about the necessity of deep social and ontological rethinking of the Internet of things phenomenon from the socio-technical positions. |
| Key words | Internet of things, Internet, actor-network theory, methodology, information technologies, network, ontology, social ontology |
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