Editing Actor–network theory (section)

=== ANT in arts ===
ANT is a big influencer in the development of [[design]]. In the past, researchers or scholars from design field mainly view the world as a human interactive situation. No matter what design we [<nowiki/>[[wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch#Unsupported attributions|who?]]] applied, it is for human's action. However, the idea of ANT now applies into design principle, where design starts to be viewed as a connector. As the view of design itself has changed, the design starts to be considered more important in daily lives. Scholars [<nowiki/>[[wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch#Unsupported attributions|who?]]] analyze how design shapes, connects, reflects, interacts our daily activities.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Yaneva|first=Albena|date=2015|title=Making the social hold: Towards an actor-network theory of design|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17547075.2009.11643291|journal=Design and Culture|volume=1|issue=3|pages=273–288|doi=10.1080/17547075.2009.11643291|s2cid=143849758}}</ref>

ANT has also been widely applied in museums. ANT proposes that it is difficult to discern the 'hard' from the 'soft' components of the apparatus in curatorial practice; that the object 'in progress' of being curated is slick and difficult to separate from the setting of the experiment or the experimenter's identity.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Waller|first=Laurie|date=2016|title=Curating actor-network theory: testing object-oriented sociology in the Science Museum|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331366426|journal=Museum and Society|volume=14|issue=1|pages=193–206|doi=10.29311/mas.v14i1.634|doi-access=free}}</ref>