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This article aims to illustrate how media technologies affect library design through the consideration of media technologies as an actor in a network and the effects of the placement of media technologies. The article makes use of material media theory, posthumanism and actor-network theory (ANT), and is based on a case study, which uses observations, existing documents and semi-structured interviews as methods for data collection. Qualitative analysis of content is used to analyze the materials. The study concludes that the process of designing a physical library can be characterized as an actor-network and that media technologies affect library design both directly and indirectly. Choices made regarding placement of media technologies point to an implicit acknowledgement of the performativity of media technologies. |
