Assessment of PPGIS by Actor-Network Theory - A Case of the PPGIS Implementation in Meinung Yellow Butterfly Valley
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Chung, Ming-Kuang
Abstract
This study employed the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to assess a Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) case in Meinung community Kaohsiung (Yellow Butterfly Valley) in Taiwan. An analytical framework of PPGIS by ANT was built. In order to assess the PPGIS project, the actors and networks of the Meinung community before the introduction of the PPGIS project were also analyzed by literature and document analysis. This study combined concepts from stakeholders and actors, and considered politlical scale to delineate the role of actors’ agency in community development. Martin’s (2000) “Network Diagram” which includes control, technology, money and information was adopted to trace the actor-network interactions. Further, this study used “input resources”, “accountable actors”, and ”recipients” to distinguish the relationships among different actors in different time periods. Using this framework and hypothesis, this study was able to analyze the change and the effects after using PPGIS in the community development issues. We can observe there are three conclusions from this study.
1. ANT is able to delineate and evaluate the social and technological interactions involved in a PPGIS implementation.
2. ANT can represent the network morphology when implement PPGIS in communities, and help researchers to clarify the roles, agency, and interactions of actors in community PPGIS decision making process.
3. The role of a PPGIS as a public consensus formation is corresponding to “obligatory passage point” in ANT.
Subjects
Public Participation Geographic Information System
Actor-Network Theory
Meinung Yellow Butterfly Valley
community development
Type
thesis
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