Infoinclusão Em Piraí Digital: Evidências Empíricas a Partir Da Teoria Ator-Rede

2017

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LAN Houses have featured as key locations for thousands of Brazilians who otherwise have no access to the Internet. Thus, the scope of this study is to investigate the implementation and sustainability trajectory of a LAN House from an Actor-Network Theory perspective. In order to achieve this, single case study methodology was adopted to address the implementation and sustainability of a LAN House in Jardim Catarina, city of São Gonçalo in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The result of this investigation supports the importance of government programs and actions as key actors to implement and sustain these endeavors. Lastly, it becomes clear that a LAN House is not actually a digital inclusion agent, despite its relevance to regions with lower rates of income, since the owner performs the role of "digital broker," whereby most of LAN House users are denied full digital inclusion.

Section: Actor-network Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Lan House Implementation and Sustainability in Brazil: An Actor-Network Theory Perspective

2017

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“…Therefore, many researchers believe that ANT has much to offer to IS research [9,[17][18], as ANT seems suitable for examining contradictory group formation processes associated with actornetworks related to IS implementation. For instance, ANT was used to examine the implementation of Geographical Information Systems in India [8] and the assessment of digital inclusion in a Brazilian municipality [19], to name only a few applications of ANT in IS research.…”

Section: Actor-network Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

LAN House Implementation and Sustainability in Brazil: An Actor-Network Theory Perspective

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

2014

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Part 3: Policy and StakeholdersInternational audienceLAN Houses have featured as key locations for thousands of Brazilians who otherwise have no access to the Internet. Thus, the scope of this study is to investigate the implementation and sustainability trajectory of a LAN House from an Actor-Network Theory perspective. In order to achieve this, single case study methodology was adopted to address the implementation and sustainability of a LAN House in Jardim Catarina, city of São Gonçalo in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The result of this investigation supports the importance of government programs and actions as key actors to implement and sustain these endeavors. Lastly, it becomes clear that a LAN House is not actually a digital inclusion agent, despite its relevance to regions with lower rates of income, since the owner performs the role of “digital broker,” whereby most of LAN House users are denied full digital inclusion

“…Therefore, many researchers believe that ANT has much to offer to IS research (Elbanna, 2011;Macome, 2008;Teles and Joia, 2012), as ANT seems suitable for examining contradictory group formation processes associated with actor-networks related to IS implementation. For instance, ANT was used to examine the implementation of Geographical Information Systems in India (Walsham and Sahay, 1999) and the assessment of digital inclusion in a Brazilian municipality (Teles and Joia, 2012), to name only a few applications of ANT in IS research.…”

Section: Actor-network Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

LAN House implementation and sustainability in Brazil: an actor-network theory perspective

2017

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LAN Houses1 have featured as key locations for thousands of Brazilians who otherwise would have no access to the internet. Thus, the scope of this study is to investigate the implementation and sustainability trajectory of a LAN House from an actor-network theory (ANT) perspective. In order to achieve this, single-case study methodology was adopted to address the implementation and sustainability of a LAN House in Jardim Catarina, city of São Gonçalo in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The result of this investigation supports the importance of government programs and actions as key actors to implement and sustain these endeavours. Lastly, it becomes clear that a LAN House is not actually a digital inclusion agent, despite its relevance to regions with lower rates of income, since the owner performs the role of 'digital dealer', whereby most of LAN House users are precluded from being digitally included.