The Significance of 'Things' in Cybercrime
How to Apply Actor-network Theory in (Cyber)criminological Research and Why it Matters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2651963 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wytske Van Der Wagen (0000-0003-2080-8683, Erasmus University Rotterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 152-168 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Extreme Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2535-3241 • E-ISSN: 2535-3241 |
| Publisher | University of Oslo Library (PUBLISHER • NO) |
| DOI | 10.5617/jea.6895 |
| OpenAlex | W2951720804 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
In recent years computer technologies and digital devices have become ubiquitous in all facets of human existence, including crime and deviant behavior. Various forms of criminality have emerged in which technical entities play a substantial role. It can be argued that such a development urges criminologists and anthropologists to draw more attention to the significance of things in crime. Latour's (2005) actor-network theory (ANT), which considers non-human entities as active participants of the social, could be a useful approach for extending our analytical focus to the non-human. The article will not only asses why, but also how we can apply ANT as a more-than-human methodology in qualitative research, by discussing three ANT-based methodological principles: 'follow the tool', 'follow the hybrid' and 'follow the network.' In this scope, this article draws on earlier conducted qualitative ANT case studies on different forms of high-tech cybercrime. In a more general vein, the article aims to show that innovations in qualitative research methods can be also informed by theory
Actor–network theory · Cybercrime · Data science · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Normative · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies · Digital and Cyber Forensics · Engineering · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Actor-Network Theory and Crime Studies
Symmetrical Absence/Symmetrical Absurdity
The phenomenology of the social world
A theory of actor-network for cyber-security
Speaking with things
Interviewing objects
From Cybercrime to Cyborg Crime
Actor-Network Theory and Methodology
We Have Never Been Modern
The Social' and Beyond
Actor-Network Theory and methodology
The Invisible Technologies of Goffman's Sociology From the Merry-Go-Round to the Internet
Agency between humanism and posthumanism
Reconstructing Humants
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |