On Actor-Network Theory and Learning Ecosystems based on Mobile Social Media

In this paper we will define learning ecosystems based on social media and try to describe the learning process in these environments using Actor-Network Theory. Especially, we are interested in the question of how an ad-hoc group of learners could be understood as an actor-network in ANT. We claim, that the availability of social media does not guarantee that the actors in the social media system form the actor-network. However, it would be important to know under which conditions the actor-network is formed and what kind of quality we get from the actor-networks. Finally, we conclude that pedagogically meaningful and high-quality learning ecosystems based on mobile social media can be described as actor-networks.