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== See also ==
Annemarie Mol
Helen Verran
Mapping controversies
Science and technology studies (STS)
Obligatory passage point (OPP)
Social construction of technology (SCOT)
Technology dynamics
Theory of structuration (according to which neither agents nor social structure have primacy)
Thing theory
Outline of organizational theory

== References ==

== Further reading ==
Carroll, N., Whelan, E., and Richardson, I. (2012). Service Science – an Actor Network Theory Approach. International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation (IJANTTI), Volume 4, Number 3, pp. 52–70.
Carroll, N. (2014). Actor-Network Theory: A Bureaucratic View of Public Service Innovation. Chapter 7, p. 115-144. In Ed Tatnall (ed). Technological Advancements and the Impact of Actor-Network Theory, IGI Global.
Online version of the article "On Actor Network Theory: A Few Clarifications", in which Latour responds to criticisms. Archived 2021-04-26 at the Wayback Machine
Introductory article "Dolwick, JS. 2009. The 'Social' and Beyond: Introducing Actor–Network Theory", which includes an analysis of other social theories
ANThology. Ein einführendes Handbuch zur Akteur–Netzwerk-Theorie, von Andréa Belliger und David Krieger, transcript Verlag (German)
Transhumanism as Actor-Network Theory "N00bz & the Actor-Network: Transhumanist Traductions" Archived 2010-10-08 at the Wayback Machine (Humanity+ Magazine) by Woody Evans.
John Law (1992). "Notes on the Theory of the Actor Network: Ordering, Strategy, and Heterogeneity."
John Law (1987). "Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering: The Case of Portuguese Expansion." In W.E. Bijker, T.P. Hughes, and T.J. Pinch (eds.), The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Diana Graizbord, and Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz. 2013. "Actor-Network Theory and the ethnographic imagination: An exercise in translation". Qualitative Sociology Volume 36, Issue 4, pp 323–341.
Seio Nakajima. 2013. "Re-imagining Civil Society in Contemporary Urban China: Actor-Network-Theory and Chinese Independent Film Consumption." Qualitative Sociology Volume 36, Issue 4, pp 383–402. [1]
Isaac Marrero-Guillamón. 2013. "Actor-Network Theory, Gabriel Tarde and the Study of an Urban Social Movement: The Case of Can Ricart, Barcelona." Qualitative Sociology Volume 36, Issue 4, pp 403–421. [2]
John Law and Vicky Singleton. 2013. "ANT and Politics: Working in and on the World Archived 2021-04-27 at the Wayback Machine". Qualitative Sociology Volume 36, Issue 4, pp 485–502.

== External links ==
John Law's actor-network theory resource
Bruno Latour's Page
Normalization Process Theory toolkit Archived 2021-04-26 at the Wayback Machine
Reassembling Ethnography: Actor-Network Theory and Sociology