“…While its name lends itself to a possible theoretical lens, actor network theory (ANT) is widely viewed as a method for doing social science research (Callon, 1986a(Callon, , 1986b(Callon, , 1999Callon & Latour, 1981;Latour, 1987Latour, , 1996Latour, , 1999Latour, , 2005Latour & Woolgar, 1979;Law, 1991Law, , 1992Law, , 1999Voeten et al, 2015). I take up ANT in this dissertation from a middle ground between these two perspectives.…”