REDES HETEROGÊNEAS E INOVAÇÕES SOCIOTÉCNICAS – UM ESTUDO SOBRE A TEORIA ATOR-REDE NA COMUNICAÇÃO ORGANIZACIONAL

• Autor(a) principal: VELASQUES, MARCOS BARBOSA
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1987
• topic: Comunicação Organizacional; Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação; Redes Heterogêneas; Inovações Sociotécnicas; Quarta Revolução Industrial ; Actor-Network Theory; Organizational Communication; Information and Communication Theories; Heterogenic Networks; Socio-technological Innovations; Fourth Industrial Revolution; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO

The contemporary culture is supported by a logic of incessant sociotechnical innovations that furnish the bases that augment the possibilities of communication. Intelligent technologies begin to integrate heterogeneous sociotechnical networks and accelerate, amplify and deepen transformations in all human and non-human dimensions. From these bases, human relations, technologies, cultures, nature, economies, politics, the work environment and all spheres that compose life are modified. Actor-Network Theory (ANT) questions “modern construction” and its Cartesian, positivist, functionalist, structuralist and systemic paradigms, and proposes a reticular vision based on an ontology of humans and non-humans in level symmetry, associated in socio-technological heterogenic temporal networks. Its methodology is Cartography of Controversies (CC), based on descriptions and tracks left by socio-technological networks, emphasizes controversies and relations (communicational relations and dynamics) and permits the study of the phenomenon in action. As such, it demonstrates that communication should not separate human from non-human, but, on the contrary, rises from human agency with its technical objects in symmetry since its beginnings. These questions evidence the impossibility of separating the concepts of COMMUNICATION – NETWORKS – TECHNOLOGY. In the field of Organizational Communication, this research seeks to understand the necessity of learning how the process of communication is being woven, in action, in light of the constant arrival of new technologies, material, sources of information and abilities and forms of communication. What is being proposed is to think in a new manner regarding the study of Organizational Communication no longer from systemic or functionalist perspectives, but rearticulates, not from the basis of premises, but from representations (diagrams and maps) that give evidence to the movements of the contemporary world. Based on these observations, the conclusion is that ANT can be utilized by the studies of Organizational Communication if the elements that constitute the theories of modernity are evaded and the elements that are defined by ANT are fully understood by the researcher. This is understood as a symmetry between non-humans and humans, where the social is not defined a priori but as the result of socio-technological agency.