@article {1419,
	title = {Networks, Genres, and Complex Wholes: Citizen Science and How We Act Together through Typified Text},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Communication},
	volume = {41},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {287-304},
	abstract = {<p>This article explores the intersection of Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) and Actor-Network Theory (ANT). These two traditions are particularly important in the Canadian research context. We examine genre and ANT to uncover what we believe is a complementary relationship that promises much to the study of science, especially in the age of the internet. Specifically, we see RGS as a way to account for how objects come to {\textquotedblleft}be{\textquotedblright} as complex wholes and so act across/among levels of network configurations. Moreover, the nature of these objects{\textquoteright} (instruments{\textquoteright}) action is such that we may attribute them to a kind of rhetorical agency. We look to the InFORM Network{\textquoteright}s grassroots, citizen science-oriented response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster as a case that exemplifies how a combined RGS and ANT perspective can articulate the complex wholes of material/rhetorical networks.</p>

<p>Cet article examine Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) et Actor-Network Theory (ANT). Ces deux modes d{\textquoteright}{\'e}tude sont importants dans les contextes de la recherche Canadienne. Nous prennons genre et ANT, pour retrouver une perspective que nous croyons puisse contribuer beaucoup aux {\'e}tudes de la science dans l{\textquoteright}{\^a}ge de l{\textquoteright}internet. On comprend les genres de textes comme une moyenne de rendre compte de la fa{\c c}on dont les objets deviennent des ensembles complexes et donc agir entre les diff{\'e}rents niveaux de configuration r{\'e}seau. En plus, la nature des actions de ces objets (ou instruments scientifique) est telle qu{\textquoteright}on puisse attribuer a eux une sorte d{\textquoteright}agence rh{\'e}torique. Nous voyons le citizen science reponse de l{\textquoteright}InFORM Network a la disastre au Fukushima Daiichi comme une example de la puissance d{\textquoteright}un perspectif RGS/ANT pour articuler les {\textquotedblleft}entieres-complexes{\textquotedblright} des networks qui sont material/rhetorical au meme temps.</p>
},
	author = {Kelly, Ashley Rose and Maddalena, Kate}
}
