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Translating actor-network theory: A methodology for the analysis of news stories on massive open online courses from the International New York Times 2012 – 2015

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Translating actor-network theory: A methodology for the analysis of news stories on massive open online courses from the International New York Times 2012 – 2015

Silva, Constanza Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4843-9886 (2021) Translating actor-network theory: A methodology for the analysis of news stories on massive open online courses from the International New York Times 2012 – 2015. PhD thesis, Concordia University.

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Actor-network theory (ANT) principles are increasingly migrating into educational research, providing a unique entry point for the study of controversy(ies). While many educational scholars draw on ANT ideas, few have used it methodologically. ANT offers researchers a way to follow actors in unstable, quickly changing situations (Latour, 2005) when relationships that might otherwise be indiscernible become visible (Venturini, 2010a). This was the case from 2012 to 2015 when mainstream news coverage on the topic of massive open online courses (MOOCs) reached a peak. Educational scholars have recognized these years as a distinct episode in news reporting on MOOCs and, more broadly, in public debate on an educational technology. Because ANT is a set of principles and conceptual tools rather than a set methodology, the first objective was to translate ANT into a workable approach for the analysis of news stories. Drawing specifically on Latour’s classic text, Reassembling the Social (2005), the research asked: How can an ANT approach be applied to the analysis of news stories? Once translated, the second objective was to demonstrate the translated methodology by following the MOOC controversy across a corpus of 31 news stories published by the International New York Times (INYT) from July 2012 to December 2015. The research asked: What does the translated ANT approach show us about how the controversy of MOOCs in higher education is expressed in the INYT corpus? What is the social that appears? Description and mapping, navigational codes, strands and confluences emerge as a set of methods and instruments for making movements and shifts in meaning within a network of passage-actors explicit. In addition to providing insights specific to the MOOC controversy as expressed in the INYT, this ANT-inspired methodology is a contribution to the growing body of ANT texts in the field of education.

Divisions:Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Education
Item Type:Thesis (PhD)
Authors:Silva, Constanza Helen
Institution:Concordia University
Degree Name:Ph. D.
Program:Education
Date:24 August 2021
Thesis Supervisor(s):Shaw, Steven
Keywords:Actor-Network Theory, Methodology, Research Design, Online Education, News Coverage, Sociology, Higher Education
ID Code:989954
Deposited By: CONSTANZA SILVA
Deposited On:16 Jun 2022 14:47
Last Modified:16 Jun 2022 14:47

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