Open AccessICT - an ally and an alien The role of ICT in Swedish popular adult education organisations
Author(s) -
Gunilla Jedeskog,
Inger Landström
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
seminar.net
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1504-4831
DOI - 10.7577/seminar.2464
Subject(s) - information and communications technology , actor–network theory , alien , value (mathematics) , sociology , relation (database) , knowledge management , public relations , empirical research , political science , social science , epistemology , computer science , demography , population , philosophy , database , machine learning , law , census
This article is focused on Swedish folk high schools and study associations as organisational settings (and not explicitly at teaching efforts and educational activities). It concerns results from a research project about introducing and implementing information and communication technology (ICT) in these value based organisations. Our research has mainly been conducted through interviews with people engaged on different organisational levels. In this article empirical results are analysed in relation to actor-network theory (ANT). Human and non-human actors are linked together in a web of relationships referred to as an actor-network. Interaction among actors, contradictory roles of ICT and relations to essential values in these organisations are discussed.